Re: [slurm-users] Persistent Interactive Jobs

2022-06-09 Thread Brian Andrus
A couple suggestions: 1) You could use a gui (run X and vncserver so they can connect and have a desktop) 2) You could run something like Jupyter an have them connect to that. Either method would allow them to connect via ssh as long as the 'job' is running.  I use both for different users/g

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2022-06-09 Thread Manchang Yip
Hello Slurm Users, I am experimenting with the new --prefer soft constraint option in 22.05. The option behaves as described, but is somewhat inefficient if many jobs with different --prefer options are submitted. Here is the scenario: 1. submit array of 100 tasks preferring feature A, each task

[slurm-users] Persistent Interactive Jobs

2022-06-09 Thread Willy Markuske
Hello All, I have a request from users for the ability to have persistent interactive jobs. Currently some users are using srun to allocate and interactive job and run their scripts but sshd will close connections after 2 hours to prevent hanging ssh connections. They want to spawn an R or py