Radiology Server Access

All of the imaging and medical patient data is located within UCSF Radiology encrypted Linux servers. Here is how to access them:

List of Radiology servers

Please refer to the full list of Radiology servers (requires UCSF login) for a comprehensive list of servers grouped by CPU and GPU resources.

Here are the two main ways to access the servers:

SSH

Mac and Linux users

  • Open a terminal and type the following:
    • ssh username@servername.radiology.ucsf.edu -L 9XXX:localhost:9XXX
    • For the above command make sure to replace the username with your own, the servername with any of the listed server names (requires UCSF login) and the 9XXX with a number above 9020
    • There will be a prompt for your UCSF password

PC users

  • Use WSL, PuTTY, Cygwin or any other SSH tool:
    • Use servername.radiology.ucsf.edu as the host name
    • Specify the local port forwarding, using the same number 9XXX, higher than 9020, both the source port and the destination port
    • There will be a prompt for your UCSF password

VNC

Unlike SSH, VNC allows you to access a virtual display of the servers. This lets you browse through the file system and open visual applications such as Matlab and a web browser in a virtual operating system. Follow these steps to start a VNC session:

  • Download and install VNC Viewer.
  • Once installed you will need to SSH to the server to which you will VNC into and type the following command into a terminal:
    • myvncserver
    • Towards the bottom of the output, take note of the last number as that will be the display number you will need to access the VNC server. Shown as radiology.ucsf.edu:7 highlighted below.

vncimage

  • Open VNC Viewer and type the server information in the following form:
    • e.g. servername.radiology.ucsf.edu:7
    • You will be prompted for your UCSF username and password.

Advanced

  • Refer to the Scientific Computing Services (SCS) official VNC tutorial for more advanced options (requires UCSF login)