Click on the link button:
Click on Browse Server:
Navigate to where you want the folder, and click on Create New Folder:
Add a guest
Guest login name should be easy to identify and no space or special characters.
ie. John Foo = john.foo
$ sudo useradd john.foo
Add guest password
$ sudo passwd john.foo
Make a strong passwd for your guest and ask your guest to call you for passwd.
Add guest to sshfs mounting group
$ sudo usermod -a -G fuse john.foo
Delete guest users account and all of their files
$ sudo userdel john.foo
On you local Mac/Linux laptop/workstation do:
$ mkdir .ssh
$ ssh-keygen -t rsa -b 4096 -f .ssh/mykeys
It will generate 2 files: mykeys and mykeys.pub inside the .ssh folder.
Use ' ssh-copy-id' command' to copy the keys to our Virtual server.
Notes: Mac OSX does not have' ssh-copy-id' command.
Download here: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/beautifulcode/ssh-copy-id-for-OSX/master/ssh-copy-id.sh
We use "sshfs" to mount your StatNet home directory securely.
For your convenient, we created a sshfs script in "/usr/local/bin/statfiles".
For usage, type 'statfiles' at the command line terminal.
Notes: If you are running batch jobs, you should mount and unmount statfiles manually.
A) To manually Mount:
$statfiles mount
$cd statfiles
B) To manually unmount
$cd
$statfiles unmount
Howto Use "sshfs" to mount your StatNet home storage automatically
1) Edit .bash_profile and remove these hashes, using vim or emacs.
$ emacs .bash_profile
...
statfiles mount
sync
cd statfiles
...
2) To unmount statfiles after logout
Edit .bash_login and remove these hashes
$ emacs .bash_logout
...
cd ~
sync
/usr/local/bin/statfiles unmount
...
3)Logout and Login your VM again.
You need to supply your StatNet passwd twice. One for your VM and one for your StatNet Home directory to mount.
4) Confirm your StatNet location
$ pwd
$ ls
5) Now you can start running your code.
$ program your_code here.
Do not save anything important on your local VM disk since it has limited snapshot and backup.
Your local VM files is saved for 7 days and every hours.
1) Using Ssh
Windows
SSHSecureShell https://owncloud.stat.ubc.ca/index.php/s/JDRoPRAeWrUHIZH
or Putty
http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/
Mac/Linux
Open a Terminal and type
ssh stat.ubc.ca -l {your login name without these parentheses}
Save your working data on
/usr/local/data/username
If you don't have the data folder ready, Email our IT help group
2) Using screen and Xpra
/Computing/FAQ/Answer/faq.php?faq=798&category=23
I) Virtual server specs:
RHEL6 64 bit OS.
initially has min 4 CPUs, 8Gb of RAM and
40Gb NFS mount of storage with 7 days local disk snapshot only.
You should use StatNet home directory as your main storage for better backup.
At anytime your project needs to have more CPU/Ram, email help at stat with brief
a explanation of why you need more resources.
Host: v{your_login_name}.stat.ubc.ca
Login/Passwd are the same as your StatNet
After you login, your VM will NOT mount your StatNet Home directory.
This is because we want you to understand how sshfs mounting work.
We created a sshfs script in "/usr/local/bin/statfiles"
II) Software installed:
Matlab
Maple
Atlas
Sage
Octave
Blas
Lapack
Numpy
R statistics
Spicy
Xppaut
Xrpa/Screen for running app nohup remotely.
Opensource development tools
Screen
http://www.gnu.org/software/screen/
Xpra
http://xpra.org/
http://winswitch.org/
From within the campus, the AMS MathSciNet publication database can be accessed directly at
Due to the fact that this database is a paid service via a subscription fee, direct access is only available from campus networks. However you can access MathSciNet from off-campus (e.g. ADSL connection from home) by proxying your request through the UBC Library system. You must have a valid library card to validate your request. The instructions on how to accomplish this are here: