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  • Requesting An Account
  • Get Started
    • Quick Start
    • Common Terms
    • HPC Resources
    • Theory of HPC
      • Overview of threads, cores, and sockets in Slurm for HPC workflows
    • Git Guide
  • Connecting to Unity
    • SSH
    • Unity OnDemand
    • Connecting to Desktop VS Code
  • Get Help
    • Frequently Asked Questions
    • How to Ask for Help
    • Troubleshooting
  • Cluster Specifications
    • Node List
    • Partition List
      • Gypsum
    • Storage
    • Node Features (Constraints)
      • NVLink and NVSwitch
    • GPU Summary List
  • Managing Files
    • Command Line Interface (CLI)
    • Disk Quotas
    • FileZilla
    • Globus
    • Scratch: HPC Workspace
    • Unity OnDemand File Browser
  • Submitting Jobs
    • Batch Jobs
      • Array Batch Jobs
      • Large Job Counts
      • Monitor a batch job
    • Helper Scripts
    • Interactive CLI Jobs
    • Unity OnDemand
    • Message Passing Interface (MPI)
    • Slurm cheat sheet
  • Software Management
    • Building Software from Scratch
    • Conda
    • Modules
      • Module Usage
    • Renv
    • Unity OnDemand
      • JupyterLab OnDemand
    • Venv
  • Tools & Software
    • ColabFold
    • R
      • R Parallelization
    • Unity GPUs
  • Datasets
    • AI and ML
      • AlpacaFarm
      • audioset
      • bigcode
      • biomed_clip
      • blip_2
      • blip_2
      • coco
      • Code Llama
      • DeepAccident
      • DeepSeek
      • DINO v2
      • epic-kitchens
      • florence
      • gemma
      • glm
      • gpt
      • gte-Qwen2
      • ibm-granite
      • Idefics2
      • Imagenet 1K
      • inaturalist
      • infly
      • instruct-blip
      • internLM
      • intfloat
      • LAION
      • lg
      • linq
      • llama
      • Llama2
      • llama3
      • llama4
      • Llava_OneVision
      • Lumina
      • mixtral
      • msmarco
      • natural-questions
      • objaverse
      • openai-whisper
      • phi
      • playgroundai
      • pythia
      • qwen
      • R1-1776
      • rag-sequence-nq
      • red-pajama-v2
      • s1-32B
      • satlas_pretrain
      • scalabilityai
      • sft
      • SlimPajama
      • t5
      • Tulu
      • V2X
      • video-MAE
      • videoMAE-v2
      • vit
      • wildchat
    • Bioinformatics
      • AlphaFold3 Databases
      • BFD/MGnify
      • Big Fantastic Database
      • checkm
      • ColabFoldDB
      • dfam
      • EggNOG
      • EggNOG
      • gmap
      • GMAP-GSNAP database (human genome)
      • GTDB
      • igenomes
      • Kraken2
      • MGnify
      • NCBI BLAST databases
      • NCBI RefSeq database
      • NCBI RefSeq database
      • Parameters of Evolutionary Scale Modeling (ESM) models
      • params
      • PDB70
      • PDB70 for ColabFold
      • PINDER
      • PLINDER
      • Protein Data Bank
      • Protein Data Bank database in mmCIF format
      • Protein Data Bank database in SEQRES records
      • Tara Oceans 18S amplicon
      • Tara Oceans MATOU gene catalog
      • Tara Oceans MGT transcriptomes
      • Uniclust30
      • UniProtKB
      • UniRef100
      • UniRef30
      • UniRef90
      • Updated databases for ColabFold
    • Using HuggingFace Datasets

Documentation

  • Requesting An Account
  • Get Started
    • Quick Start
    • Common Terms
    • HPC Resources
    • Theory of HPC
      • Overview of threads, cores, and sockets in Slurm for HPC workflows
    • Git Guide
  • Connecting to Unity
    • SSH
    • Unity OnDemand
    • Connecting to Desktop VS Code
  • Get Help
    • Frequently Asked Questions
    • How to Ask for Help
    • Troubleshooting
  • Cluster Specifications
    • Node List
    • Partition List
      • Gypsum
    • Storage
    • Node Features (Constraints)
      • NVLink and NVSwitch
    • GPU Summary List
  • Managing Files
    • Command Line Interface (CLI)
    • Disk Quotas
    • FileZilla
    • Globus
    • Scratch: HPC Workspace
    • Unity OnDemand File Browser
  • Submitting Jobs
    • Batch Jobs
      • Array Batch Jobs
      • Large Job Counts
      • Monitor a batch job
    • Helper Scripts
    • Interactive CLI Jobs
    • Unity OnDemand
    • Message Passing Interface (MPI)
    • Slurm cheat sheet
  • Software Management
    • Building Software from Scratch
    • Conda
    • Modules
      • Module Usage
    • Renv
    • Unity OnDemand
      • JupyterLab OnDemand
    • Venv
  • Tools & Software
    • ColabFold
    • R
      • R Parallelization
    • Unity GPUs
  • Datasets
    • AI and ML
      • AlpacaFarm
      • audioset
      • bigcode
      • biomed_clip
      • blip_2
      • blip_2
      • coco
      • Code Llama
      • DeepAccident
      • DeepSeek
      • DINO v2
      • epic-kitchens
      • florence
      • gemma
      • glm
      • gpt
      • gte-Qwen2
      • ibm-granite
      • Idefics2
      • Imagenet 1K
      • inaturalist
      • infly
      • instruct-blip
      • internLM
      • intfloat
      • LAION
      • lg
      • linq
      • llama
      • Llama2
      • llama3
      • llama4
      • Llava_OneVision
      • Lumina
      • mixtral
      • msmarco
      • natural-questions
      • objaverse
      • openai-whisper
      • phi
      • playgroundai
      • pythia
      • qwen
      • R1-1776
      • rag-sequence-nq
      • red-pajama-v2
      • s1-32B
      • satlas_pretrain
      • scalabilityai
      • sft
      • SlimPajama
      • t5
      • Tulu
      • V2X
      • video-MAE
      • videoMAE-v2
      • vit
      • wildchat
    • Bioinformatics
      • AlphaFold3 Databases
      • BFD/MGnify
      • Big Fantastic Database
      • checkm
      • ColabFoldDB
      • dfam
      • EggNOG
      • EggNOG
      • gmap
      • GMAP-GSNAP database (human genome)
      • GTDB
      • igenomes
      • Kraken2
      • MGnify
      • NCBI BLAST databases
      • NCBI RefSeq database
      • NCBI RefSeq database
      • Parameters of Evolutionary Scale Modeling (ESM) models
      • params
      • PDB70
      • PDB70 for ColabFold
      • PINDER
      • PLINDER
      • Protein Data Bank
      • Protein Data Bank database in mmCIF format
      • Protein Data Bank database in SEQRES records
      • Tara Oceans 18S amplicon
      • Tara Oceans MATOU gene catalog
      • Tara Oceans MGT transcriptomes
      • Uniclust30
      • UniProtKB
      • UniRef100
      • UniRef30
      • UniRef90
      • Updated databases for ColabFold
    • Using HuggingFace Datasets

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  3. Managing Files

Uploading files to the Unity filesystem

The only way to add files to the Unity filesystem is through an SSL encrypted connection. You can use Unity OnDemand, FileZilla, Globus, or the command line.

  • Unity OnDemand is the most intuitive interface, but can’t transfer large files.
  • FileZilla is good for those who have their SSH keys set up and are familiar with the software already.
  • Globus is useful for large file transfers between Globus endpoints, including your personal computer with Globus Connect.
  • Command-line tools like scp and rsync are good for quick work via the command line.
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Uploading files using American residential internet is typically very slow. UMass Amherst has a fiber line going directly to MGHPCC to improve speeds.

Your key file

The FileZilla and Console methods require setting up public/private SSH keys. This can be the same key you use to SSH to Unity. scp and rsync use OpenSSH, and FileZilla prefers .ppk but can work with .rsa. Depending on which software you use, you can generate one of each. You can also convert between these keys using a program like PuTTYgen.

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Windows users using PowerShell SSH only must add MACs hmac-sha2-512-etm@openssh.com to their ~/.ssh/config file, or use the flag option in your SSH command so that it reads ssh -m hmac-sha2-512-etm@openssh.com <rest of the cmd>.

This is necessary due to a known bug in Microsoft’s SSH library which causes problems connecting to newer OpenSSH installs from Microsoft’s SSH client included in PowerShell.

For more information, see the configuring SSH keys article. To update SSH keys in your Unity account, visit account settings in the Unity portal.

Articles in Managing Files

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Command Line Interface (CLI)
Documentation for Command Line Interface (CLI).
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Disk Quotas
Documentation for Disk Quotas.
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FileZilla
Documentation for FileZilla.
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Globus
Documentation for Globus.
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Scratch: HPC Workspace
Documentation for Scratch: HPC Workspace.
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Unity OnDemand File Browser
Documentation for Unity OnDemand File Browser.
Last modified: Friday, March 14, 2025 at 2:20 PM. See the commit on GitLab.
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