X Forwarding

SSH can also be configured to do X forwarding, which allows the GUI applications to be run on a remote machine. This allows you to use the full functionality of the convenient graphics tools, but can be slow, especially if the connection to the cluster is not via a local area network. In order to activate X forwarding, you may need to use the -X option to ssh from your client. Once the X forwarding is setup, you can use any of the GUI tools described throughout this manual.