Hey, I wanted to make it easy for my users to use SLURM, so I wrote a wrapper script that makes it dead simple to get an interactive shell on our cluster. Some of our users write batch scripts, but most of them just want to run something "right now", like R, BLAST, etc. For those users learning what the hell "salloc -n1 srun --x11 --pty" means (or remembering it!) is really asking too much.
The script allows them to easier ask for more CPUs, give a job name, switch partitions, etc, and it also forwards X11 (using the SPANK plugin) if $DISPLAY is set. The source code is on my github account[0]. I've licensed it under the GPLv3. Feel free to use it and or suggest improvements. Also, I've written about how we use it on my blog[1]. Cheers, [0] https://github.com/alanorth/hpc_infrastructure_scripts/blob/master/slurm/interactive [1] http://mjanja.co.ke/2013/08/interactive-script-for-slurm/ -- Alan Orth alan.o...@gmail.com http://alaninkenya.org http://mjanja.co.ke "In heaven all the interesting people are missing." -Friedrich Nietzsche
