The Researcher Desktop is a powerful and fully configured virtual computer that provides you with a dedicated compute resource to analyse or process your research data.
There are many benefits of the Researcher Desktop service, including:
- No set up, configuration or user management required
- Comes with a standard operating system (Windows or Linux)
- Allows secure remote access
- Fully scalable service: the standard 4 compute cores can be increased to 16 cores with a click of a button.
Available at no cost to all University of Melbourne researchers, including graduate research students.
Access the Researcher Desktop here.
(Note: You will need to be logged into the University’s VPN to access the Researcher Desktop dashboard)
Contact Research Computing Services with general enquiries or to request a consultation.