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Temporary Notice:

SLAC NoMachine is undergoing new changes. If you are having issues, try changing the host to

Host: psnxana.slac.stanford.edu

You will need to run in the "console" mode.

From the console, type "ssh psana" to start analysis.

"xterm&" to open additional terminals. When you disconnect and reconnect to NoMachine, these terminals will remain in the state you left it in.

 

Overview

When users are off-site or have slow internet connections, displaying graphics can be cumbersome.  PCDS has explored two solutions for this problem.  The first ("NX technology") gives the user a special remote desktop that is specifically designed to improve the performance of X11 graphics with slow connection speeds.  The second ("Virtual Box") allows the user to directly install the psana analysis environment on their Windows, Linux or MAC machine, so that LCLS data analysis (including graphics) can be done with no network connection (click here for information on the virtual box approach).

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