Remote Desktop
Occasionally, it is helpful to use a graphical interface to explore data or run certain programs. Remote Desktops are available through our cluster Web Portals. Information on accessing the web portal is available on Access the Web Portal documentation page. From the Web Portal, you are able to launch interactive apps such as Remote Desktops. In the past options were to use VNC or X11 forwarding. These tools can be complex to setup or suffer from reduced performance. The Remote Desktop app simplifies the configuration of a VNC desktop session on a compute node.
To get started, connect to one of cluster Web Portals and choose Remote Desktop from the Interactive Apps menu or the dashboard and then follow the instructions for launching an interactive app.
Copy/Paste
In some browsers, you may have to use a special text box to copy and paste from the Remote Desktop App. Click the arrow on the left side of your window for a menu, then click the clipboard icon to get access to your Remote Desktop's clipboard.
