Viterbi MyDesktop VDI

What is Viterbi MyDesktop?

Viterbi MyDesktop (VDI or Virtual Desktop Infrastructure) is the virtual computing resource available to students of select engineering classes.

Viterbi MyDesktop is intended to provide Viterbi students with access to engineering and scientific software packages whose licensing terms prohibit their installation on personally owned computers, involve complex installation procedures, or require elevated hardware resources for satisfactory experience. The intent is to provide access to installed software on any device from anywhere and at any time.

You can access the VDI by clicking here

Please note that this is different from the USC ITS administered Cloudapps. For more information on Cloudapps, please click on this link.


Virtual Desktop Pools
Viterbi MyDesktop currently uses VMWare Horizon virtual desktop technology. Virtual desktops supported on MyDesktop run Windows software only.

  1. General Desktop with light 3D graphics acceleration.
  2. Enhanced Desktop with heavier 3D graphics requirements.
  3. C-Enhanced Desktop with higher computational requirements with modest 3D graphics requirements.
  4. Forensics Desktop with higher computational requirements with modest 3D graphics requirements. This pool is sandboxed.

Who has access to Viterbi MyDesktop?
All Viterbi classes have access to the Enhanced and General desktop pools.

My class has access. How do I get on?

Please click MyDesktop Logon Instructions for the step by step PDF.

How do I request for software to be installed?

Please click here for how to request installation of new instructional software

Published on November 7th, 2022

Last updated on November 21st, 2022