[slurm-dev] Re: Interactive shells

2014-01-29 Thread Alan Orth
Cool, glad to see someone using that script I wrote. :) btw, `--x11` is a valid srun option if you're using the x11 spank plugin: https://github.com/hautreux/slurm-spank-x11 Comes in handy for graphical programs we use on our cluster, like R, RStudio, CLC Genomics Workbench, etc. Cheers, Alan

[slurm-dev] Re: Interactive shells

2014-01-21 Thread Jason Bacon
Got it. FYI, http://slurm.schedmd.com/faq.html#prompt has the exact same FAQ entry as the llnl site, though. Cheers, JB On 01/21/14 10:00, Moe Jette wrote: One more thing. all of the documentation at llnl.gov is years old. Current documentation is at http://slurm.schedmd.com Quoti

[slurm-dev] Re: Interactive shells

2014-01-21 Thread Jason Bacon
That's pretty slick, thanks! On 01/21/14 09:58, Moe Jette wrote: The big difference is that you can get a larger allocation with the salloc, spawn a single shell on a login node, and from your shell use all of the job's resources. You can make that the default as shown below and explained

[slurm-dev] Re: Interactive shells

2014-01-21 Thread Jonathan Mills
One of our administrators, Marcin Sliwowski, took this 'sinteractive' script by Alan Orth, and modified it to be slightly easier to use. [jonmills@ht1 ~]$ which sinteractive /usr/local/bin/sinteractive [jonmills@ht1 ~]$ cat /usr/local/bin/sinteractive #!/bin/bash # Copyright (C) 2013 Alan Or

[slurm-dev] Re: Interactive shells

2014-01-21 Thread Moe Jette
The big difference is that you can get a larger allocation with the salloc, spawn a single shell on a login node, and from your shell use all of the job's resources. You can make that the default as shown below and explained at http://slurm.schedmd.com/faq.html#salloc_default_command Sall

[slurm-dev] Re: Interactive shells

2014-01-21 Thread Moe Jette
One more thing. all of the documentation at llnl.gov is years old. Current documentation is at http://slurm.schedmd.com Quoting Jason Bacon : Well, UW-Milwaukee is now officially a SLURM site. SLURM is now the primary RM on two clusters running CentOS 6.5 (formerly LSF) and FreeBSD 9

[slurm-dev] Re: Interactive shells

2014-01-20 Thread Christopher Samuel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 21/01/14 12:26, Jason Bacon wrote: > One usage question has come up that the FAQ and Google are fuzzy on: How > to open a scheduled interactive shell on a compute node. ...and to add a third version into the mix, this is what we came up with: [