Overview

Teaching: 5 min min
Exercises: 0 min

Questions

• How to use SMU M3 Virtual Dekstop?

Objectives

1. SMU ManeFrame 3 Virtual Desktop

• In order to use User Interface with GPU support for Stable Diffusion, we need to use the Virtual Desktop from ManeFrame 3
• To access the Virtual Desktop, visit: hpc.m3.smu.edu, select Remote Desktop on the left sidebar with following information:
  • Slurm Account: smu (workshop is only for the workshop day)
  • Partition: gpu-dev (workshop is only for the workshop day) Note: gpu-dev is the development queue that have gpu available, each node has 8 V100 NVIDIA GPUs. The limitation of this dev queue is 2 hours walltime
  • Time: 2 hours
  • Cores per node: 4
  • Memory: 16gb
  • Number of GPUs: 1

• Hit launch.

  

• Select High Image quality for better resolution

• If you see the following screen, click on MATE terminal (or search for Terminal in the Menu box)

Key Points

• M3 Virtual Desktop