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
9.2 (formerly Torque).
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.
The FAQ at https://computing.llnl.gov/linux/slurm/faq.html#prompt seems
to be incomplete, stating
srun -u bash -i
Without --pty, though, editors and the like won't work.
I came across another site suggesting
salloc -n1 srun -n1 -N1 --pty --preserve-env $SHELL
The salloc seems redundant to me, but maybe there's some advantage I'm
unaware of. Wouldn't this
be exactly the same?
srun -n1 -N1 --pty --preserve-env $SHELL
Thanks,
Jason
