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Desktop in OOD

You can get a basic desktop interface to HPC resources.

Getting Started​

You can get a desktop in OOD by going to the URL ood.hpc.nyu.edu in your browser and selecting Desktop from the Interactive Apps pull-down menu at the top of the page. Once you've used it and other interactive apps they'll show up on your home screen under the Recently Used Apps header.

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Be aware that when you start from Recently Used Apps it will start with the same configuration that you used previously. If you'd like to configure your Desktop session differently, you'll need to select it from the menu.

Configuration​

You can select the number of cores, amount of memory, GPU type (if any), number of hours, and optional Slurm options.

OOD Desktop Configuration

Desktop running in OOD​

After you hit the Launch button you'll have to wait for the scheduler to find node(s) for you to run on: OOD Desktop in queue

Then you'll have a short wait for the Desktop itself to start up.
Once that happens you'll get one last page that will give you links to:

  • open a terminal window on the compute node your Desktop session is running on
  • go to the directory associated with your Session ID that stores output, config and other related files for your session
  • make changes to compression and image qualtiy
  • get a link that you can share that will allow others to view your Desktop session

Pre-launch Desktop OOD

Please click the Launch Desktop button and a Desktop window will open.