TeraGrid Login

Once you have created a TeraGrid Portal account and have been added to an allocation on a TeraGrid machine, you can connect to that machine use the Globus Toolkit. You can install this locally on your workstation or laptop using these instructions, or you can login to Oscar where the toolkit is avaiable in the 'teragrid' module:

module load teragrid
myproxy-logon -l <TeraGrid username>
(enter TeraGrid Portal password)

After running myproxy-logon, you will have a certificate checked out to the /tmp directory on that node  will let you connect to TeraGrid machines using the gsissh command (there is also a gsiscp command for copying files). To connect to blacklight, for instance, you would use

gsissh blacklight.psc.teragrid.org

You do not have to enter another password because your Globus certificate automatically handles the authentication to the TeraGrid machine.

If you regularly use the TeraGrid from Oscar, you can have the 'teragrid' module load automatically when you login by adding it to your default module list with:

echo "module load teragrid" >>~/.modules