The Data Analysis Remote Treatment Service (DARTS)

We present the Data Analysis Remote Treatment Service (DARTS), an open-source remote desktop service that launches on-demand virtual machines in the cloud, and displays them in a browser. The environments can be used for e.g. scientific data treatment. DARTS can be deployed and configured within minutes on a server, and can run any virtual machine. The service is fully configurable, supports GPU allocation, is scalable and resilient within a farm of servers. DARTS is designed around simplicity and efficiency. It targets laboratories and facilities that wish to quickly deploy remote data analysis solutions without investing in complex hypervisor infrastructures.

After installation, add/activate VMs in /etc/qemu-web-desktop/machines.conf, then run sudo qwdctl download. You may further tune the /etc/qemu-web-desktop/config.pl for e.g. authentication, service load, and authentication.

References:

1. Farhi E., DARTS (2022) https://gitlab.com/soleil-data-treatment/soleil-software-projects/remote-desktop
2. Mas R. and Farhi E., DARTS/qemu-web-desktop Debian package, https://packages.debian.org/source/sid/qemu-web-desktop
3. https://doi.org/10.21105/joss.05562