General purpose servers

You can log in to several types of server:

Remote desktop (XRDP)

Use this to log in to Informatics from home with a full graphical desktop. For details see:

• ⇒ Remote desktop (XRDP).

Remote login (ssh)

Use this to log in to Informatics from home on the command line. For details see:

• ⇒ External login (ssh).

Compute servers

To run software that uses a lot of compute resources, and which may take hours, days or weeks to finish, you can use a compute server. For details see:

• ⇒ Compute servers.