[Beowulf] OT, X11 editor which works well for very remote systems?

[John Hearns]

> Makes me think.  1st workshop. Can’t ever be the first time this question
has been asked. Also David, absolutely not OT. Very much on topic.

Maybe...
For my contribution if you use Windows then MobaXterm is an excellent tool.
IT wraps up Putty, VNC, Cygwin X server etc. etc in one package.

For accessing remote systems I have used the following:

VirtualGL - to be honest I dint think much of this. Hard to set up, and you
had to 'vglrun  application'. I know this can be a wrapper.
To be fair, one place where I worked really favoured it.

NICE DCV - absolutely simple to set up, works great and is transparent to
users. You can enable and disable it easily also.

Teradici PCOIP - I used the hardware version of PCOIP with cards in
workstations and zero (thin) clients on desks.
Works great. Completely transparent to users. If you are working in a
secure environment then you should really, really look at this.
I had one customer who was working at a UK secure site. He had a cluster
room, and a small room next door with Windows PCs.
He would have to walk over to work on the PCs as they were not connected to
his office network.
First time I visited the site I recommended Teradici and they were a great
success - the card/terminals have options for fibre connections
which are again used on many secure sites.






On 7 June 2018 at 04:14, James Cuff <jcuff at nextplatform.com> wrote:

>
> I miss SGI jot. It had this super strange GL offload to the client that
> I’ve never seen since.
>
> http://rainbow.ldeo.columbia.edu/documentation/sgi-faq/apps/6.html
>
> We really need to find a solid way to do this whole remote GUI work.
>
> https://2018.isc-program.com/?page_id=10&id=wksp122&sess=sess279
>
> Makes me think.  1st workshop. Can’t ever be the first time this question
> has been asked. Also David, absolutely not OT. Very much on topic.
>
> J.
>
>
> On Wed, Jun 6, 2018 at 5:28 PM David Mathog <mathog at caltech.edu> wrote:
>
>> Off Topic.
>>
>> I need to do some work on a system 3000 miles away.  No problem
>> connecting to it with ssh or setting X11 forwarding, but the delays are
>> such that my usual editor (nedit) spends far too much time redrawing to
>> be useful.  Resizing a screen is particularly painful.
>>
>> Are there any X11 GUI editors that are less sensitive to these issues?
>>
>> If not I will just use nano or vim.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> David Mathog
>> mathog at caltech.edu
>> Manager, Sequence Analysis Facility, Biology Division, Caltech
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