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Unlike personal computers running operating systems such as Windows, MacOS or Ubuntu, our systems do not provide a graphical windowing environment. Nevertheless, some of the tools provided on Pawsey systems do have Graphical User Interfaces (GUIs). GUI applications on Pawsey supercomputers are typically based on the the X Window System (external site), also known as X11 or simply shortened to X. Typical examples of these applications are debuggers and profilers. Here we explain how to use the X forwarding option of SSH to view and control these applications remotely. |
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