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File management

When you first log in to AI Cloud, you are landed in your user directory: /home/<domain>/<user>. You can confirm this by typing pwd. This directory is your private storage space where you can keep all your files. It is stored on a network file system, so you can access your files from any compute node within the platform.

Here is the general file structure on AI Cloud:

  • / AI Cloud's root directory
    • home user home directories
      • [domain] domain directory, e.g es.aau.dk
        • [user] your user directory

For a detailed overview of the AI Cloud storage system, click here.

Transfer files within AI Cloud

You can use the command cp [source] [destination] to copy files, and cp -r [source] [destination] to copy directories.

To move files and directories use mv [source] [destination].

Transfer files between your local computer and AI Cloud

You can transfer files between your local computer and AI Cloud using WinSCP. Other popular solutions are PuTTY and FileZilla. Alternatively, you can install OpenSSH to use the scp command, as shown for Linux/MacOS users.

When you open WinSCP, you will be greeted by a Login modal. Follow the instructions in the image above to establish a connection to the server. Screenshot of WinSCP setup

You can now drag and drop files between your local computer and the AI Cloud platform.

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You might want to display hidden files in WinSCP (such as files starting with a dot on Linux systems). Go to Options → Preferences... → Panels and turn on "Show hidden files".

You can transfer files between your local computer and AI Cloud using the command line utility scp. This will only work if you call the command from your local computer and not the server.

scp some-file user@domain.aau.dk@ai-fe02.srv.aau.dk:~/some-dir

Replace user@domain.aau.dk with your AAU email address.

Here, ~ represents your user directory on AI Cloud and /some-dir a folder in your directory.

To copy files from AI Cloud to your local computer, use:

scp user@domain.aau.dk@ai-fe02.srv.aau.dk:~/some-folder/some-subfolder/some-file .

Replace user@domain.aau.dk with your AAU email address.

Here, . represents the current directory on your local computer.

Now that you know the basics of file transfer, lets proceed to learn how to get applications