You can run an X Windows application on the head node e.g. igv and fastqc.

• Run an X Server on your client machine (e.g. XMing or MobaXTerm on Windows).
• Make sure “X Forwarding” is enabled.
  • -X on ssh.
  • Option in putty (Connection / SSH / X11).
• Can be quite slow depending on the application and the network connection.

Both IGV and fastqc need an older version of java. We set the path accordingly before running the program.

export PATH=/usr/lib/jvm/java-8-oracle/jre/bin:$PATH
igv

Get a GUI view of the cluster jobs, nodes, etc.

sview