VNC

VNC connections are described on the BioHPC pages.

See Getting Started Guide and Remote Access.

VNC allows you to use graphical interfaces and disconnect.

Note that, for off-campus access, you will need to use Cornell VPN. Instructions can be found here.

For VNC:

• Once your have a reserved node, click “My Reservation” to manage all your active reservations.

• Choose your reservation.

• Click “Connect VNC” under “Action” and you will have your machine name and port number. To disconnect, click “Cancel VNC” under “Action”.

• Open VNC Viewer and type in session number in the form of “machine name:port number” given by BioHPC.

Tip

You do not need VNC

• to run statistical software - all statistical software can be run from the command line, accessible via SSH

• to access a compute node, see SSH

• to use Rstudio or JupyterLab