MRC Managed Cloud (RCP)

With our managed cloud products, you don’t have to set up or maintain the environment. The configuration is all standardised to what most people will need, and we look after all the maintenance for you. Accordingly, there’s very little upskilling required to launch and start using these products.

Products: Researcher Desktop, Research Server

Access: Follow the steps on the Research Computing Portal (RCP) to self-serve Researcher Desktops and Research Servers within minutes

Great option if: You don't want to set up and manage the machines yourself

Best for: Ease of use

Learning & support materials

All the basics are covered in RCP itself (note that each product has a ‘Learn More’ page in RCP capturing fundamental help topics like how to resize, shelve, boost or delete your machine etc).

But there are also some additional speciality topics covered here in the RCS Knowledge Hub:

• Installing NVivo 20 on a Windows RCP VM

• Remote desktop programs for connecting to a Windows Researcher Desktop

• SSHing to a Linux Researcher Desktop

• Copying files to/from your Linux Researcher Desktop