READ.ME

These scripts allows to establish desktop session with remote compute node of HPC for Windows PCs.


0) if you never started VNC server on HPC, login to HPC in console (e.g. PuTTY) and execute "vncpasswd" to set the password for VNC (can be the same as your HPC password or different)
1) Choose a folder here: zeus or pluto to launch VNC session on the required HPC.
2) Launch only 01_START_VNC_Session_..._1_node_24h.hta (doubleclick on it), if prompted how to open the *.hta file, choose mshta.exe option (normally picked automatically).
3) Fill in your HPC password
4) In the black console window wait for the VNC server job to start in the queue of HPC, note the target node name
5) Close the black console window
6) The second tool will start automatically to connect you to VNC session -- fill the target node name and your password

By default the VNC job will last 24 hours.
When you select "Logout" from your VNC Desktop session (in main menu), the VNC slurm job will terminate. If you just close VNC Desktop window --> it will remain running untimm termination time is reached. if you need longer than 24 h time limit for your VNC Desktop session, please ask me.

For more details see: http://zeus.coventry.ac.uk/wordpress/?p=1119

Alex Pedcenko
aa3025@coventry.ac.uk