Login to a desktop environment via a remote desktop client¶

Learning outcomes

For teachers

Teaching goals are:

Learners have practiced using the documentation of their HPC cluster
Learners can log in to a remote desktop environment using a remote desktop client

What is a remote desktop client?¶

A remote desktop client is a program we run on our local computer. Here we see how such a program looks like:

A remote desktop client

A remote desktop client

You could say that a remote desktop client is 'the program you use to connect to an HPC cluster'.

One uses a remote desktop client to access a remote desktop environment. Here is how such an environment looks like:

A remote desktop environment

A remote desktop environment

Depending on your HPC cluster, there may be a different remote desktop client being recommended.

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The solution of these exercises can be found:

How difficult will this be?

This depends only on your HPC cluster:

HPC Cluster	Difficulty	Reason
Alvis	Medium	Uses SSH keys, must be in SUNET
Arrhenius HPC	Easy	Uses password
Berzelius	Easy	Uses password
Bianca	Medium	Uses password, must be in SUNET
COSMOS	Easy	Uses password
Dardel	Medium	Uses SSH keys
Kebnekaise	Easy	Uses password
LUMI	Medium	Uses SSH keys
Pelle	Easy	Uses password
Tetralith	Easy	Uses password
Vera	Easy	Uses password

Go to the documentation of your favorite HPC cluster.

Where is the documentation of my favorite HPC cluster?

In that documentation, find the page about how to login to your HPC cluster's remote desktop environment using a remote desktop client.

I cannot find it. Where is it?

Log in to your HPC cluster using a remote desktop client.