End-to-End Desktops
Introduction
End-to-end Desktops create a seamless HPC experience on Rescale. End to End Desktops is a batch compute cluster with desktop visualization on the head node of your cluster. It provides a user interface for users to interact with the job setup directly from the analysis software.
Features of End-to-End Desktops
- Enables you to work with your batch job submission interactively. You can monitor jobs on the fly
- Enables you to distribute your batch job submission across the entire cluster using an automated process
- You can pause the analysis at any time, edit the inputs or parameters of the job and either restart or rerun the analysis
- Job results can be viewed during and right after completion of the simulation without any delays
- Files are automatically synced from the batch job to the Desktop session and vice-versa
- There is no additional charges for the visualization
Key Notes
- The Desktop session is CentOS Linux
- The files are synced to the work directory of the desktop session
- Users need to explicitly terminate the job to shutdown the cluster
- Session files should to be saved to the work folder, after which they will be uploaded to the job files under Results on the platform
Software
End to End Desktops are currently available for:
- ANSYS Fluent
- ANSYS CFX
- ANSYS Mechanical
- ANSYS Electronics
- Simcenter STAR-CCM+
Tutorials
- ANSYS Workbench Job Submission using End-to-End Desktops
- ANSYS Electronics Job Submission using End-to-End Desktops
- Simcenter STAR-CCM+ Job Submission using End-to-End Desktops
Connecting to End-to-End Desktop Using NICE DCV (recommended)
The instructions below are for connecting your end-to-end desktop to NICE DCV.
Connecting to End-to-End Desktop Using VNC Client
The instructions below are for connecting a local Windows machine to your end-to-end desktop. See here for how to ssh in from a local Linux or MacOS workstation, and skip to Setting a VNC password.