Access local gpu when ssh into remote server

soup_sam

I'm trying to run a very graphically unintensive program on a remote server. However, it has no GPU capability, and thus the program just returns an X Window System error. The program runs fine on my local machine - is there a way to ssh into the remote server, but still have access to my local resources, so I can, in a sense, submit jobs to my local machine to complete? edit: I'm already using ssh -Y to log into the server, and other graphical...

Originally asked by Adam Shaw on Stack Exchange (unix) (CC BY-SA 4.0).

uphilltech

Great question — answering as the UphillTech team:

X Windows System error usually means that you're trying to run a graphical program through command line which does not have a screen connected to it. There's two ways to circumvent this. Either the program has a way to run headless (without displaying graphics) or you need to create some kind of graphics capability. There's options like using VNC or running through X forwarded SSH. To do the latter, just do ssh with an -X flag. (e.g. ssh -X root@myhost) Or you could just redirect all the graphics to the monitor the computer is connected to, by doing this as the very first thing: export DISPLAY=:0.0

Full answer by Eilyre: https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/320846 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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