Getting Started¶

Note

All users of the Danforth Center Data Science infrastructure must first acknowledge that they have read and understand the Usage Policies.

Setting up your workstation¶

Web-based access¶

You can access your account and configure desktop and command-line access by navigating to https://soca.datasci.danforthcenter.org.

Command-line access¶

Applications¶

You will need a terminal application that supports ssh to log into the Data Science infrastructure. Some common options are listed below, bolded options are recommended.

macOS: Terminal (built-in), iTerm2.
Linux/Unix: Terminal (built-in).
Windows: Windows Subsystem for Linux (Windows 10 only), PuTTY, Cygwin.

File access¶

Applications¶

macOS: Cyberduck/Mountain Duck, Transmit, FileZilla.
Linux/Unix: System file browser (built-in), FileZilla.
Windows: Cyberduck/Mountain Duck, WinSCP, FileZilla.