Visualization on JURECA
JURECA Visualization Nodes
All JURECA login nodes are equipped with GPUs for visualization purposes. There are no dedicated visualization login or batch nodes.
Here is an overview about the configuration:
12 login nodes:
ssh access via
jureca.fz-juelich.de(see Access)1 TB main memory, 2 NVIDIA Quadro RTX8000
login nodes, that means direct access via ssh possible
shared by all users logged in
How to Use the Visualization Nodes
A graphical login simplifies the access to remote visualization and the data stored on the file system. Hence, we support and recommend the use of Virtual Network Computing (VNC) on the visualization nodes of JURECA. VNC provides a complete graphical and remote desktop by
transmitting the keyboard and mouse events from your computer to the remote machine and
relaying the graphical screen updates back in the other direction.
VNC is
platform-independent (VNC viewers are available for almost any operating system)
application-independent (no need for remote visualization support inside the application)
With the help of VirtualGL installed on JURECA vis nodes OpenGL commands of visualization software can be processed on their local GPUs.
In contrast to X-forwarding (ssh -X) this can speed up visualization tremendously especially for large data sets.
For further details about how to use the vis nodes of JURECA for remote rendering please refer to the visualization related documentation at https://trac.version.fz-juelich.de/vis/