I've found a useful way to run SPM remotely (for example, if I'm working
from home).
The key is to use the VNC package, freely available
http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/
Previously, I was using PC X windows servers to connect from my Solaris Unix
computer at work from my home PC, so I could run matlab and SPM in graphics
mode. (Of course, it's likely that you can circumvent this entire question
by running in batch mode, but I haven't tried that yet.) The problem is
that the X protocol appears to spend a lot of time sending messages back and
forth, which slows things down a lot. (This is an issue of "network
latency", not bandwidth.) I had this problem even though I was running DSL
from home.
Nice features of VNC are (1) it works cross-platform and (2) if your
connection dies or you kill it, the desktop session you're running still
exists on the remote machine.
Best,
Steve Fromm
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