1. Utilizing SSHFS for Distributed Computing

2. What is SSHFS SSHFS allows you to mount data through an ssh connection. –http://fuse.sourceforge.net/sshfs.htmlhttp://fuse.sourceforge.net/sshfs.html –http://wikipedia.org/wiki/SSH_Filesystem Simple command line –sshfs remoteuser@remotehost:/path/to/remote_dir local_dirremoteuser@remotehost Performance is as fast as your ssh connection. Works on Linux. (i386, x86_64, ia64)

3. Why use sshfs? Allows you to use local applications on remote data. –using Paraview to look at data processed on the TeraGrid and stored on the GPFS-WAN. Directly accessing the remote file. Your changes are seen by everyone. SSHFS allows you to tune performance.

4. Easy to install on Linux Ubuntu –sudo apt-get install sshfs CentOS (x86_64 example) –download fuse (http://fuse.sourceforge.net)http://fuse.sourceforge.net./configue --prefix=/usr --libdir=/usr/lib64 –download sshfs./configure –prefix=/usr –libdir=/usr/lib64 –/etc/rc.d/rc.local mknod /dev/fuse -m 0666 c 10 299

5. Advanced Sys. Adm. Tricks Utilize SSHFS with autofs to mount remote data for local users Utilize samba to share SSHFS with windows users Utilize SMBWebClient to share data through a web portal.

6. What Does 87TB + 220TB look like? 220TB through CIS portal using autofs, samba, smbwebclient. CIS has 87TB of local storage. /cis/net lists network drives.