Virtual Desktops in Open OnDemand

Open OnDemand makes available two different virtual desktop options. These are accessible via the Interactive Apps menu:

The ASU Cluster Desktop is available for all HPC users, the Computer Science Desktop is a reserved instance for users in the Department of Computer Science. Non-Computer Science users do not have access to the CS partition. 

After selecting the ASU Cluster Desktop option you will see this screen:

There are a few options here, first is the amount of time you want to reserve. The minimum is one hour and the maximum is 168 hours. If you close your web VNC session your job will keep running and you can reopen it at a later date. There are a few pre-defined sizes available:

Name	CPU Cores	Memory (GB)
Tiny	2	4
Small	4	8
Medium	4	16
Large	8	16
X-Large	16	32
2X-Large	24	64

 Keep in mind that anything you run inside this Virtual Desktop will also need to fit inside these RAM and CPU requirements. We may add more options in the future to better accommodate different workloads as well.