Note: the ELvis cluster will be phased out at the end of November 2017. All ELvis users should have received an e-mail some weeks ago inquiring how their existing data on the cluster (/home file system only) is to be treated after the shutdown. Data in /home of which the user has not indicated that it needs to be saved (or transfered) will be deleted by the end of 2017! If you have any further questions regarding this procedure or the migration in general, please contact helpdesk@surfsara.nl
The remote visualisation services are in the process of being migrated to Cartesius, whose GPU nodes will take over the function that ELvis has fullfilled for the past years. See here for more information.
The ELvis remote visualization cluster provides high-end GPU rendering capabilities for performing (interactive) visualization of large datasets. These datasets can be stored on SURFsara HPC systems (e.g. simulation output from a compute job on Cartesius) or can be uploaded to the cluster as well. The user runs his/her visualization application on the ELvis nodes at SURFsara instead of on their local desktop machine.
This has a number of advantages:
Note that the RVS cluster is meant for providing interactive GPU-accelerated visualization, not for performing batch-oriented GPU-accelerated computations.
Using the remote visualization service more or less follows the following workflow:
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