3D Slicer desktop VM

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You can launch a VM in your project with a command like this in your local terminal (replace vm-name with a name for your machine):
The current image we created requires GPU accelerator! If you do not specify the accelerator in the command below, you will not be able to access the machine!
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export VMNAME=vm-name
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gcloud compute instances create ${VMNAME} \
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  --machine-type=n1-standard-8 \
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  --accelerator=type=nvidia-tesla-k80,count=1 \
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  --image-family=slicer \
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  --image-project=idc-sandbox-000 \
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  --boot-disk-size=200GB \
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  --boot-disk-type=pd-balanced \
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  --maintenance-policy=TERMINATE
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Once it boots in about 90 seconds you can type:
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gcloud compute ssh ${VMNAME} -- -L 6080:localhost:6080
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Then you can open http://localhost:6080/vnc.html?autoconnect=true to get to your desktop.
Note that this effort is a work in progress with a minimal desktop environment. Further refinement is expected and community contributions would be welcome! A description of the background and possible evolution of this work is in this document.

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