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Moonlight, Google Stadia, or GeForce NOW in noVNC form factor for Linux X11 and Wayland, in any HTML5 web interface you wish to embed inside, with at least 60 frames per second on Full HD resolution.
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Selkies is an open-source low-latency high-performance Linux-native GPU/CPU-accelerated HTML5 remote desktop streaming platform, for self-hosting, containers, Kubernetes, or Cloud/HPC platforms, started out first by Google engineers, then expanded by academic researchers. It streams over plain WebSockets by default, with WebRTC available as an opt-in transport.
Selkies is designed for researchers, including people in the graphical AI/robotics/autonomous driving/drug discovery fields, SLURM supercomputer/HPC system administrators, Jupyter/Kubernetes/Docker®/Coder infrastructure administrators, and Linux cloud gaming enthusiasts.
While designed for clustered or unprivileged containerized environments, Selkies can also be deployed in desktop computers, and any performance issue that would be problematic in cloud gaming platforms is also considered a bug.
Please read Troubleshooting and FAQs first, then use Discord or GitHub Discussions for support questions. Please only use Issues for technical inquiries or bug reports.
NOTE: this project is licensed under the Mozilla Public License, version 2.0, which obliges to share modified code files licensed by MPL-2.0 when distributed externally, but does not apply for any larger work outside this project, which might be open-source or proprietary under any license of choice. Externally originated components outside this project may contain works licensed over more restrictive copyleft/proprietary licenses, as well as other terms of intellectual property, including but not limited to patents, which users or developers are obliged to adhere to.
WebRTC and Firewall Issues (cannot connect)
Components including Encoders and Interfaces
Citations in Academic Publications¶
Citations are the currency of scientific research. Citing in your publications is the main driver of keeping this project alive.
Please read the dedicated Citing Selkies page. A publication entry is to be available in the near future.
Maintainers of derivative open-source projects should also place the citation page in a clearly visible location of your project.
This project has been developed and is supported in part by the National Research Platform (NRP) and the Cognitive Hardware and Software Ecosystem Community Infrastructure (CHASE-CI) at the University of California, San Diego, by funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF), with awards #1730158, #1540112, #1541349, #1826967, #2138811, #2112167, #2100237, and #2120019, as well as additional funding from community partners, infrastructure utilization from the Open Science Grid Consortium, supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF) awards #1836650 and #2030508, and infrastructure utilization from the Chameleon testbed, supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF) awards #1419152, #1743354, and #2027170. This project has also been funded by the Seok-San Yonsei Medical Scientist Training Program (MSTP) Song Yong-Sang Scholarship, College of Medicine, Yonsei University, the MD-PhD/Medical Scientist Training Program (MSTP) through the Korea Health Industry Development Institute (KHIDI), funded by the Ministry of Health & Welfare, Republic of Korea, and the Student Research Bursary of Song-dang Institute for Cancer Research, College of Medicine, Yonsei University.
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