Graphical sessions

We provide an interactive node (mesoshared.univ-fcomte.fr) for graphical sessions like:

  • File editing
  • Running matlab/comsol (we recommand batch mode using SGE)
  • Results post-processing
  • File Transfer
  • …
  • This node is shared between users and is not managed by a resources manager (GridEngine).
  • This node is managed by X2Go software.
  • This node have 32 cores Intel Nehelm (2.2GHz) and 64Go of memory.

X2Go

X2Go enables users to access a graphical desktop over low or high bandwidth connections. It provides a remote desktop solution tunneled over SSH supporting file and printer sharing.

We recommend that users install the latest version of X2Go by downloading it from https://wiki.x2go.org/

For Microsoft Windows users
there is a BUG with the lastest x2go client version. Please the older versions. For example : https://code.x2go.org/releases/binary-win32/x2goclient/releases/4.1.0.0-2017.03.11/

Connecting to mesoshared

  1. Start the x2goclient software and click the New Session button as shown:
  2. Specify mesoshared.univ-fcomte.fr in the host field and choose GNOME as Desktop Environment in Session type:
  3. Click the connection to start it.
  4. Enter your username and password.
  5. Enjoy the remote desktop connectivity.
  6. From menu Applications > System tools > Terminal. Open a terminal and go to WORK space 
  7. cd $WORK

    Load and run your application ; for example ; load matlab 

    $ module load matlab

    run matlab 

    $ matlab

X2GO Options

  • For better performances we encourage to disable sound support and client side printing: go to session preferences / media panel and disable those options
  • Remote file sharing is disabled for now.