XCES is hosted at DKRZ's HPC, in order to navigate through folders, edit scripts/programs or run them we generally need to connect to the HPC nodes via ssh. Here we indicate the most common ways to do it:

XCES has embedded a shell from which we can easily log in into the miklip server. For that we only need to enter our DKRZ username and password.

We only need to open a terminal and type:

$ ssh <username>@xces.dkrz.de

add --X for linux and --Y for mac if you want to able to launch some GUI (e.g. ncview) within the shell via X11.

Here we can do it either

just launch the powershell and type:

$ ssh <username>@xces.dkrz.de

Download it from here. Open it and under the Session tab enter the following:

1. hostname: xces.dkrz.de (to enter in our miklip nodes, you could also enter mistral.dkrz.de to enter in any of the DKRZ nodes)
2. port: 22 (for ssh)
3. click open

For example since some years you can install Windows Subsystem for Linux. From there you can launch it, and use the terminal to connect the same way. If you fancy some particular terminal such as terminator follow this link.

DKRZ's Jupyterhub also offers the possibility to open a terminal within it (clicking “New” button, “Terminal”):

For info on how to connect to Jupyterhub, please click here.