Interfacing with Biowulf using Fugu
Fugu is an open source and graphical based application for Mac users that can be used for data transfer between local and high performance compute systems such as Biowulf. To obtain Fugu, refer to the instruction from the Biowulf website for GUI file transfer applications.
"Fugu is a graphical frontend to the commandline Secure File Transfer application (SFTP). SFTP is similar to FTP, but unlike FTP, the entire session is encrypted, meaning no passwords are sent in cleartext form, and is thus much less vulnerable to third-party interception. Fugu allows you to take advantage of SFTP's security without having to sacrifice the ease of use found in a GUI. Fugu also includes support for SCP file transfers, and the ability to create secure tunnels via SSH.
- Download Fugu from the U. Mich. Fugu website.
- For OSX 10.5 and above, download from cnet.com.
- Doubleclick on the downloaded Fugu_xxxx.dmg file to open. A small window with the Fugu icon will appear" -- Biowulf GUI file transfer applications.
Upon opening Fugu, we will see two panels. One allows us to navigate our local directories and files while the other allows us to connect to a remote host (ie. Helix/Biowulf) (Figure 1). Following Figure 1, do the following to connect to Helix
- Enter helix.nih.gov in the box that says Connect to
- Enter Helix/Biowulf username (mine is wuz8 so that is what we see)
- Make sure that Port is set to 22
- Specify the directory in Helix/Biowulf that we like to goto (ie. /data/wuz8, which is my data directory)
- Hit connect when done entering credentials
Figure 1
At the next screen, enter the password used to log into Helix/Biowulf and click the Authenticate button (Figure 2).
Figure 2
Once signed in to Helix, we will see our Helix/Biowulf directories and files in one panel and our local directories and files in another panel. From here we can select and then drag and drop either from Helix/Biowulf to local or from local to Helix/Biowulf (Figure 3).
Figure 3