i think instead of trying to do more of the work locally, it might be worth considering trying to work more frictionlessly within the cluster environment instead? e.g. using claude to script visualizing the results and transferring them to your local environment for convenient inspection, or even designing a local GUI for running the jobs and inspecting the results?

it doesn't handle the VPN/2FA friction I guess, but I'd think unless most work can be done locally it would be better to invest in making cluster work more convenient