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Virtual desktop infrastructure

Project ID: 
295
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Summary: 
Virtual desktop infrastructure
What: 

Provide a decent virtual desktop infrastructure. For researchers (e.g. staff, postdocs, postgrads) who have DICE desktops, the service might utilise the computing resources of the desktop machine allocated to the particular user. This is not possible with NX but there are probably other systems out there which can be used, this project will evaluate the various options to come up with a proposal for future implementation.

Why: 

The recently deployed NX service has been wildly popular and users would like an even better service. It's clear that running just one server for this purpose is not going to be sufficient. We have to limit resource access (e.g. memory) so that it is reasonably usable by all. Most staff have DICE desktop machines so it would be nice to have some system to allow remote graphical access.

Effort estimate: 
2 weeks
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