Virtual Workspaces

Introduction

Virtual workspaces services are deployed at the University of Florida in collaboration with the University of Chicago Science Cloud . Currently 16 compute nodes at the ACIS Lab are allocated to provide the services. In particular, workspaces are created with 4 VCPUs (Intel Xeon/Prestonia 2.40GHz Hyperthreading enabled) and up to 2.5GB of memory.

To deploy and interact with a workspace follow the steps described here.

Requests to access the workspaces services should be sent to acis-vws [at] acis dot ufl dot edu

Important Configuration notes:

  • Workspaces are deployed in a private network (192.168.139.0/24), and you will need private network software (currently OpenVPN).
  • OpenVPN client opens a tun device configured in 192.168.254.0/26 subnet.
  • Once your OpenVPN is operational, you can test pinging 192.168.139.1
  • Workspace cloud client version 6 is required.

Download the workspace cloud client and follow the setup instructions. You will need the following:



This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. 0721867. Any opinions, findings and conclusions or recomendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation (NSF).