Using Nagoya

A few tricks for using nagoya.research.khoury.northeastern.edu:

Change your home directory

Since the server is in Holyoke, it is physically distant from the /share server. So running with /share/u/[username] as your home directory tends to be very slow. Instead you should mkdir /disk/u/[your-username], which is the local disk on nagoya, and then make a home directory for yourself in that directory.

In my .bashrc I add the following, to use /disk/u/[my-username] as my homedir whenever it is present

# Change homedir on nagoya
if [[ -d /disk/u/$(whoami) ]]
then
    export HOME=/disk/u/$(whoami)
    echo "Changed HOME to ${HOME}"
    cd ${CHOME}
fi

Use its ip address

The static ip address for nagoya is 10.201.22.179 - sometimes the DNS resolver is flaky.