Interactive Computing¶

I want 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.

I want a command line session with a GPU¶

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=gpu --gres=gpu:1 --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.

I want a complete Desktop Environment¶

Please see the article for Interactive Desktop on Open OnDemand.

I want to use X Forwarding to run a GUI program¶

Please see the article X Forwarding for Mac and Windows