Copying Data

This topic explains how you can copy data to and from the cluster.

Using Course Manager

Log in to

and open the Files tool (requires enabling ssh from the browser). Select files and directories and use one of the Download actions.

Using SMB

Connect to

on Windows (instructions are here) or

on macOS (instructions are here).

You will see the following shares:

• A share with your login as name which is your home directory at /home/{your login}.
• courses which is for the directory /cluster/courses.
• work which is for /work.
• scratch which is for /scratch.

Using SCP or SFTP

You can connect to

or the specific hosts student-cluster1.inf.ethz.ch and student-cluster2.inf.ethz.ch using either SCP or SFTP.

• On Linux you can use the plain scp command. Nautilus, which comes with the Gnome desktop, also allows you to connect via SFTP.

• On Windows you can use FileZilla or WinSCP.

• On macOS you can also use scp in a terminal or FileZilla.