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2. Connect to Hyak and forward the the port from you local machine to the new one:
2. Connect to Hyak and forward the the port from you local machine to the new one:


  ssh -L localhost:'''$PORT''':localhost:'''$PORT''' '''username'''@mox.hyak.uw.edu
  ssh -L localhost:'''$PORT''':localhost:'''$PORT''' '''username'''@hyak.washington.edu


You can also add the following line to the Hyak section on your local .ssh/config file on your laptop:
You can also add the following line to the Hyak section on your local .ssh/config file on your laptop:
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8. In your local browser, localhost:'''$PORT'''
8. In your local browser, localhost:'''$PORT'''
== Working on Hyak from a local emacs client ==
Some of us (like Nate) rely heavily on the Emacs text editor. [http://ess.r-project.org/| Emacs speaks statistics] is a powerful emacs mode for
programming in R and doing data analysis.  There are a few options for using Emacs on hyak. If you open emacs on an interactive node with X-forwarding enabled then you will get a nice graphical emacs window and plots you make will be displayed on your screen. But if you disconnect from Hyak you will lose your R session.  This makes running emacs the normal way on an interactive node unsuitable for fitting models.  Another  disadvantage is that your will be working with an x-forwarded emacs and so will not look as nice or be as responsive as your local emacs.
Alternatively, you might run emacs in console mode in tmux. Then Hyak will keep running your R process even when you log out. The downsides here is that you can't view plots on your display (you could save them as a pdf, and then open the pdf on your local machine) and that some emacs key chords will collide with tmux key bindings and configuring tmux to fix this is a pain.
A better way is to run emacs server on a compute node on hyak and then open a local emacs client that connects to that server. 
=== Instructions For ESS ===
''Unfortunately, this requires running emacsserver on a login node and viewing plots does not work. These problems should go away if hyak let us forward X from a compute node and tunnel it through a login node. This doesn't seem to work as ssh -X n0649 doesn't seem to forward X.''
1. Open tmux on a ''login node'' and start emacsserver.
  $ tmux
  $ emacs --daemon
2. Still in tmux, start an interactive session
  $ any_machine
3. In a new terminal (not tmux) ssh into the login node and start an emacs client (-c means in a new window).
  $ emacsclient -c
4. In this emacsclient open a shell, ssh to the compute node, and start an R process.
  M-x shell
  $ ssh n0649
5. With focus on the R process buffer in emacs, connect ESS to the R process.
  M-x ess-remote
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