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  • scp, sftp, rsync - these are automatically installed on Mac and Linux

  • pscp, psftp - Windows-only. These can be installed with the PuTTY ssh program.

  • ftp - available on O2 for downloading from external sites which only accept FTP logins. But, O2 does not accept incoming FTP logins.

  • aspera - a data transport and streaming technology, now owned by IBM.

  • awscli - Amazon AWS command line interface

  • basemount - an Illumina tool to mount BaseSpace Sequence Hub data.

  • bbcp - a point-to-point network file copy application from NERSC

  • lftp - can transfer files via FTP, FTPS, HTTP, HTTPS, FISH, SFTP, BitTorrent, and FTP over HTTP proxy.

  • gcloud - Google Cloud command line interface, including the gsutil command

  • NBIA Data Retriever - a tool for downloading data from the TCIA Data Portal , installed under /opt/NBIADataRetriever

  • rclone - rsync for cloud storage

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You can connect to the transfer nodes using ssh at the hostname: transfer.rc.hms.harvard.edu . If you're on Linux or Mac, you can use the native terminal application to connect to the transfer nodes. If you're on Windows, you will need to install a program to connect to the transfer servers; we recommend MobaXterm. In either terminal or MobaXterm, type the following command:

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