ECE Guacamole

Guacamole -- A Web Browser Interface to the ECE Linux Machines

Guacamole provides a way of using the Linux machines without having to install any software, you just use your web browser.

• Works from anywhere, on campus or off.
  No needing to use VT's VPN.
• Connections don't die when you close your web browser.
• You can connect to several different computers at the same time and switch between them.
• You can leave long running processes running.
  For example you can start "matlab" then start run a long running script. Close your web browser/laptop. Come back tomorrow, reconnect and pick up where you left off.
• Simple file transfer.
• Connections are secure.
• The full documentation for using Guacamole is here.

What you need to know:

• To login you will use your ECE computer account. If you don't have one, go here and create one.
• When you are connected to a computer you can bring up the "Guacamole Menu" with <CTRL><SHIFT><ALT> key combination. This will allow you to do several things.
  • Disconnect from the current session and connect to a different computer.
  • Transfer files to/from the remote machine.

Problems and Bugs:

If you find something not working, please let me know: rbrand7 (at) vt.edu. If you don't let me know of problems, I can't fix them!

Known problems and work arounds:

Login Problem

If you are having trouble login into the Guacamole page, it is possible that your password has expired. Passwords are set to expire once a year. The guacamole login does not tell you that your password has expired, it just does not allow you to login!

To fix this, go here and login with your VT PID/password. Then Edit your account to change your password. There is an oddity with the "Edit" account where you must select your (one and only) account from the drop down list.

Connection fails with strange messages.

This seems to happen when several people try to connect at the same time. For now, just try to reconnect, it almost always works the second (or third) time.

Text is a little fuzzy / blurry to read.

Click the <CTRL><SHIFT><ALT> key combination. Scroll all the way to the bottom. Uncheck Automatically fit to browser window.

The initial connection to a machine takes a while.

Just be patient. When you reconnect to a machine, its pretty quick.

There is a copy&paste clipboard between your computer and the remote computer. This does not work for all combinations of (local computer, browser, remote computer).

I will try to post updates about this.

This type of connection is slow and laggy.

Yes. There is probably nothing I can do about that. If you want a more responsive interface, you will probably need to do a native X windows connection.

Pick machine:

• Pick a machine that is not too busy (Load Average).
• If you are trying to reconnect to a machine you used before but you've forgotten which one, look for your login (Logged In).

Machine Name	Load Average (lower is better)	Logged In
Compute Machine 01	DOWN
Compute Machine 02	0.06	benupdike gobranh21 jacobtm24 jmlee22 liamboyle ljhart meysam97 Mylesliu quintonc21 rubel ryanpham757 salekin sean321 stanhouMICS tannerc
Compute Machine 03	0.22	acc1 ajackson03 dillanm dthurmond elnino everettmiceli hadam259 jacobtm24 jmlee22 luisdf meysam97 miamcconathy Mylesliu pfaeghi rbrand7 rubel salekin sean321 shuvob1 sprakhar stanhou sun95 tannerc wyattdillon13
Compute Machine 04	0.23	acc1 dthurmond ecdanson hjiwu18 hrwill jacobtm24 jswalling ljhart luisdf meysam97 pfaeghi rishitadepalli sean321 sprakhar stanhouMICS woojun
Compute Machine 05	0.83	ajackson03 behdadjamadi hjiwu18 jmlee22 meysam97 mjf pfaeghi salekin sean321 stanhouMICS
Compute Machine 06	5.87	asfand behdadjamadi jacobtm24 jmlee22 ljhart meysam97 racrigler rrohit stanhouMICS zhenghh
Compute Machine 07	0.52	aschinel cdk ecdanson gskumar hjiwu18 jling01 meysam97 pfaeghi rubel ryanpham757 salekin siddlewis22 stanhou stanhouMICS tannerc tb02
Compute Machine 08	0.31	fabiha27 hjiwu18 jacobtm24 jmlee22 meysam97 pfaeghi ryanpham757 salekin sprakhar stanhouMICS woojun
Compute Machine 09	3.19	aschinel dthurmond jerwee jhouseman jmlee22 meysam97 rrohit ryanpham757 siddlewis22 zhenghh
Compute Machine 10	15.44	harikiran meiyuzheng meysam97 rubel zhenghh
Compute Machine 11	12.38	behdadjamadi benupdike cmdrmo cuehling elilevi630 elpsycongroon everettmiceli hadam259 haleys21 hjiwu18 jerwee jmlee22 jswalling luisdf meysam97 Mylesliu pengcheng326 pvcostes qfelipe rishitadepalli rrohit rstewart02 rubel ryanpham757 salekin sbraden03 schkris sean321 stanhouMICS wyattdillon13
Compute Machine 12	12.05	cyang826 lalitprasad meysam97 pfaeghi rubel ryanpham757
Compute Machine 13	12.10	cuehling ddennett ecdanson hjiwu18 hrwill jmlee22 miamcconathy muntasirm rrohit stanhouMICS
Compute Machine 14	45.58	behdadjamadi hanash hjiwu18 jmlee22 stanhouMICS
Compute Machine 15
Large Memory Machine	31.14	adhikesavbala15 behdadjamadi elilevi630 hadam259 jhouseman jmlee22 karthikms91 muntasirm salekin stanhouMICS tb02 zhenghh
MPI Head Node (48 node cluster)	1.12	haoxiangliew jkh mmeghasyam muntasirm Mylesliu nolanchu parikh pfaeghi pixelatedRF salekin woojun wyattdillon13

Great! Let's get going!

• Remember to use your ECE computer account to login, just click here.