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2961	Tips for remote use	Tristan Croll	Tom Goddard	"With the current rapidly-evolving situation, there's suddenly a whole lot of new interest from people wanting to run ChimeraX (and ISOLDE) remotely. I myself will be locked out of my building as of Monday, with no clear idea for how long. Of course, I have my own GPU laptop to work with - but there are many others who don't. For one, the PhD student downstairs who's desperate to finalise his cryo-EM model of respiratory complex I. Anyway, I was thinking it would be a really good idea to put together a page covering the options. A few thoughts:

- I'm aware that Linux remote virtual desktop is out of the question due to failure to update to OpenGL 3. But I did come across these HDMI dummy plugs on Amazon: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Headless-Display-Emulator-Headless-1920x1080-generation/dp/B072PV6K8J. They're designed to fool the server into thinking it has a real screen attached, so it can run a normal X session and share that display via (e.g.) VNC. That should work, should it not?

- What about Amazon Web Services and other cloud computing options? Have you tried any of them out for ChimeraX? Looks like the ""sweet spot"" for something like ISOLDE would be AWS's g4dn.xlarge (1 Nvidia T4 GPU, 4 CPU cores, $0.526/h). Don't know if they have a way around the remote desktop limitations in Linux, or whether they'd need to be running Windows. 
"	task	closed	major		Graphics		wontfix		Eric Pettersen Elaine Meng				all	ChimeraX