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Mounting disk from a computer cluster (remote disk) to our local machine

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Hello all, When we are working with a super computer cluster, traditionally we often do not have visualisation access there. If we want to navigate the folders or files, we may see them,  using  for example a "Linux terminal", by using command such as ls , cd and pwd . If we run a program there and it then produces numerous results, sometimes we would like to visualise and analyse the results immediately in our local machine. Of course, we may visualise and analyse quickly the result data by using gnuplot [1] directly in the cluster or by copying it to our local machine by scp or rsync commands. However, I found sometimes it is inconvenient to use gnuplot because we need to know the commands there. Copying the result to our local machine may also take time and effort  Example of gnuplot window, we can perform plotting function directly on Unix environment by gnuplot functions. The above methods may be powerful if we know well the Unix commands for copying or be

How to synchronise our data in our local drive to our server disk?

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Hello all, This article discusses about my own strategy in synchronising my data from the server's staff home directory to my local machine drive. First, let understand what is my motivation to write this article. But of course you may have tons of other reasons why you need to synchronise your disks. Even though Linux offers great capabilities and advantages as mentioned in the previous article , we sometimes cannot really escape from the MS. Windows (Windows) domination. The fact that MS. Windows has dominated operating system (OS) markets since few decades ago leads to abundant users have used and become familiar with this OS. Big companies and some funding agencies often use MS. Offices for their business documentations as well as their publications.  If we work collaboratively with them, either in applying a consortium funding or writing a deliverable to a sponsor company, we may not always be able to avoid writing the reports using MS. Word. Although personally I think