Visualisation on Balena

Overview:

• Teaching: 10 min
• Exercises: 5 min

Questions

• Can I visualise large datasets on Balena? Objectives
• Know how to launch visualisation jobs on Balena

Accessing the visualisation service

Balena portal: balena.bath.ac.uk

What do you need?

• A low latency connection with reasonable bandwidth to the cluster login nodes
  • 1MB/sec downstream for low-mid quality JPEG compression (perfectly usable from UK and European ADSL links and over wifi)
  • 10MB/sec downstream (100Mbit) for a high quality stream (within the university campus with wired network connections)
• A web browser with either:
  • A working java runtime
  • A turbo vnc client

Setup visualisation job 1

Setup visualisation job 2

Virtualisation remote desktop

Virtualising a molecule/trajectory file

Key Points:

• You can launch visualisation jobs on Balena to explore large datasets.

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