Interactive Computing¶

Get a command line session¶

To get an interactive session for an hour on one node with 8 cpus:

srun --time=01:00:00 --nodes=1 --cpus-per-task=8 --partition=interactive --pty /usr/bin/bash

Any of the arguments you can use with sbatch can be provided here too.

When you do this you should consider protecting your session with tmux or screen.

Get a command line session with a GPU¶

To get an interactive session for an hour on one node with 8 cpus and 1 GPU:

srun --time=01:00:00 --nodes=1 --cpus-per-task=8 --partition=gpu-interactive --gres=gpu:1 --pty /usr/bin/bash

Any of the arguments you can use with sbatch can be provided here too. You can also use the job script generator.

When you do this you should consider protecting your session with tmux or screen.

Get a complete Desktop Environment¶

Please see the article for Interactive Desktop on Open OnDemand.

Use X Forwarding to run a GUI program¶

Please see the article X Forwarding for Mac and Windows