Can VAPOR be run through an SSH shell like Putty using Xming for an X-server?
Unfortunately not. All 3D visualization applications need to use the VirtualGL pipeline to use the system’s graphics card. I recommend TurboVNC for this, but TigerVNC, TightVNC, and other VNC client/servers would work if configured correctly.
Thanks for the suggestion. It looks like TurboVNC will compress the graphics instructions and send them through to my remote client. I’ll give it a try.
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One quick question: does VAPOR act as a VNC server, or do I need to install TurboVNC on both the server side as well as the client side? It looks like I would use the VNC viewer on the client side to ssh through to the server and my guess is that I need to have TurboVNC running as a server to allow VAPOR to display?
Hi Colby, the VAPOR does not act as a VNC server. The VNC software needs to be installed on both server and client machines.
After that, you can launch vapor with a command called vglrun, which will forward the graphics pipeline to the client desktop. We have documentation on how to run VAPOR on our graphics cluster here, after VNC software is already configured on the server.