Workstations
An Elastic Cloud Workstation is a remote desktop running on Rescale hardware. Use one when you need a GUI for CAD, meshing, post-processing, or driving a solver interactively, rather than a batch job.
Workstation or job?
A job runs unattended in the background and has one purpose: to solve. A workstation is an interactive session you work inside. If you don't need to see or touch anything while it runs, use a job. It's cheaper and simpler.
Start here
Find and manage
The Workstations list, views, search syntax, columns, and row actions.
What a workstation is
How workstations work, what they cost, and when to use one instead of a job.
Create a workstation
Pick software and hardware, attach data, and launch.
Connect to your desktop
In-browser or native client, and how to get the lowest latency.
Working day to day
Suspend and resume
Stop paying for compute overnight without losing your setup. Resumes in under 3 minutes.
Save and sync your files
What gets kept when a workstation stops, and what is silently lost.
Move files in and out
Open attached job data, push post-processing output back, and transfer at scale.
Templates
Save a configuration and launch it again without rebuilding it.
Share a workstation
Let a colleague connect to your session, and what they can do once in.
When something goes wrong
Recover an unresponsive workstation
Reboot or reprovision from the UI, and which one to pick.
Limits & supported configurations
Reference: operating systems, clouds, protocols, start-up times, and the 30-day limit.
Related
- SSH access — a terminal instead of the desktop
- Administration — workspace-admin policies and monitoring
- Jobs — the batch counterpart
- Files and storage — where workstation output lands