| **step 3** | Optional: Finetune your session with the available SLURM job parameters or assign a certain project or reservation. Then save your settings in a new preset for future use. | |
| **step 4** | Click on "Spawn". JupyterHub starts now a SLURM job for you. If everything is ready the JupyterLab interface will appear to you. | |
| **step 5"** | Click on the **button "WebVNC"** to start a virtual desktop. | Click on the \*button "NICE DCV"to start a virtual desktop. |
| ^ | The virtual desktop starts in a new tab or window. | |
| details about the examples | `interactive` partition, 2 CPUs with 2583 MB RAM per core, no GPU | `dcv` partition, 6 CPUs with 2583 MB RAM per core, 1 GPU |
| link creator | Use the spawn form to set your preferred options. The browser URL will be updated with the corresponding parameters. | |
If you close the browser tabs or windows or log out from your local
machine, you are able to open the virtual desktop later again - as long
as the session runs. But please remember that a SLURM job is running in
the background which has a certain timelimit.
## Reconnecting to a session
In order to reconnect to an active instance of WebVNC, simply repeat the
steps required to start a session, beginning - if required - with the
login, then clicking "My server", then by pressing the "+" sign on the
upper left corner. Provided your server is still running and you simply
closed the window or logged out without stopping your server, you will
