Ssh to eng-grid.bu.edu or eng-grid2.bu.edu and once you’re logged in, run: $ qlogin STEP 1: From a bash window on your local client, you will ssh to the remote server: These instructions assume you are logging into the Engineering Grid as described in the main instructions but you can do this to any UN*X system you have access to just by ignoring the “qlogin” part.

If your home client is running a full version of vncviewer (such as the one that comes with most Linux distributions), you can use vnc’s “-via” switch.

Connect using the VNC session and enter the custom password.

Make a new VNC-type session in MobaXterm (this can be re-used later) with these settings:.

the digits for the screen number vncserver assigned you (5901 for :1, etc).

the hostname of the system the grid assigned you.

$ ssh 9999:hostname:59XX need to fill these parts:

In a MobaXterm tab with a local shell (click the little “plus” icon at the top of the terminal pane to get a local shell if needed), run:.

Log file is /home/user/.vnc/signals26:1.log

Starting applications specified in /home/user/.vnc/xstartup

New 'signals26:1 (jkgoebel)' desktop is signals26:1Ĭreating default config /home/user/.vnc/config Importantly, note the screen number assigned to your session after the hostname, like hostname:1 for screen vncserver On the remote shell, run vncserver and make up a password to secure your VNC session.Your interactive job 9330449 has been successfully scheduled.Įstablishing /mnt/nokrb/sge/etc/sshwrap session to host signals26.bu.edu. Waiting for interactive job to be scheduled. Your job 9330449 ('QLOGIN') has been submitted In the example below the use connects to qlogin -q instruction.q Start an interactive session on the grid following the usual instructions, including qlogin to get to a compute node.Because VNC’s default protocol is not secured, the following instruction setup the connect through an SSH tunnel. VNC can be helpful for getting quick remote display performance over imperfect network connections. VNC connections over SSH Use X11 for the moment.

Open vnc viewer connection