# Can 3D Slicer be hosted on a rendering server?

**URL:** https://discourse.slicer.org/t/can-3d-slicer-be-hosted-on-a-rendering-server/9256
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [November 21, 2019, 5:04pm UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/can-3d-slicer-be-hosted-on-a-rendering-server/9256 "2019-11-21T17:04:04Z")
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### Author: ![muratmaga](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.slicer.org/muratmaga/32/3622_2.png) [@muratmaga](https://discourse.slicer.org/u/muratmaga)
#### Post date: [March 22, 2021, 5:51am UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/can-3d-slicer-be-hosted-on-a-rendering-server/9256/13 "2021-03-22T05:51:59Z")

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Recently we ran our week long SlicerMorph workshop on cloud using Docker containers. I made some comments on how it worked out here:

> [@How to run Slicer on the cloud and access in a web browser](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/how-to-run-slicer-on-the-cloud-and-access-in-a-web-browser/16401/7):
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> We just finished the first day running SlicerMorph workshop on the Cloud. This note is for sharing the experience with other folks interested in running Slicer as an remote interactive desktop application (not thru Jupyter notebooks or binder). We are using this docker [GitHub - SlicerMorph/SlicerMorphCloud: Docker for running SlicerMorph on Cloud](https://github.com/SlicerMorph/SlicerMorphCloud/), which provides a simple openbox WM, with a file browser, Slicer, R/Rstudio and Firefox. (same docker can be used for GPU accelerated setups with Nv…

Overall it went well. VNC sessions can be managed better (specifically issue #6), but otherwise experience has been quite pleasant.

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