VDI nodes

Two large memory graham remote desktop machines pre/post-processing

  • access to all files (don’t have to transfer data back and forth)

  • full details on docs.computecanada.ca

Accessing

Connect via VNC (TigerVNC viewer recommended) to gra-vdi.computecanada.ca

Windows and OS X

Download latest version from TigerVNC website

  • releases (at top) -> binaries are available from sourceforge (end of changes list)

Linux

Install with your package manager

  • Debian and Ubuntu: sudo apt-get install tigervnc-viewer

  • Fedora: sudo yum install tigervnc

Software

Compute Canada stack is not loaded by default

  • Compute Canada stack: module load CcEnv StdEnv

  • Nix stack: module load nix

  • Limited number of local-only packages: module load clumod