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The Swanson lab is located in 240 Upson Hall. Four computers are available for in-person use and eight for remote use.

There are a limited number of computers and many remote users due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Please be sensitive to this and log out of the computers when you are done. Your cooperation is appreciated!

Machines 17, 20, 23 and 26 are reserved for in-person use. The rest of the machines have been made available for remote use. Remote machines # 21, 22, 24 have Wasp and #25 has the Adobe suite. 

Easy way to connect remotely : 

First, establish a VPN connection to the campus network before using a remote lab computer unless you are on some parts of the Cornell campus network. VPN . 

• Obtain CISCO Anyconnect from it.cornell.edu/vpn - follow the install instructions for your operating system. Your user name will be netid@en-ma-vpn-acad Use your regular netid password.
• Note that VPN now requires two-step login. In the drop down titled Group, select Two-factor, then Tab after you put in your password. 

Then, use the remote access portal to the Swanson lab to simplify the connection process:  https://remoteaccess.labstats.com/cornell-swanson-lab.html

Important note about saving data: Please save files locally, say on Desktop, during your remote session and then copy them over to a cloud drive like Onedrive or Google Drive before the session ends. Otherwise, you’ll lose your work after the remote session ends. 

The Swanson lab computers have "swsn" in their names. Extra computers from the Orange computer lab with "orange" in their names have been added to the pool to accommodate overflow.  The "orange" computers are less powerful but have the They use the Ansys research license on them which has no restriction on the node/cell count. 

Make sure your remote desktop client is the most recent. Some older versions do not connect properly and give nondescript errors which are difficult to troubleshoot.

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