<div dir="ltr">indeed.<div><br></div><div>All our workstations are submit hosts and in the queue, so people can run jobs on their local host if they want.<div><br></div><div>We have a GUI tightly integrated with our environment for our staff to submit and monitor their jobs from (they don't have to touch a single job script).</div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Thu, Nov 22, 2018 at 6:28 PM Tina Friedrich <<a href="mailto:tina.friedrich@it.ox.ac.uk">tina.friedrich@it.ox.ac.uk</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">I really don't want to start a flaming discussion on this - but I don't <br>
think it's an unusual situation. I have, in likewise roughtly 15 years <br>
of doing this, not ever worked anywhere where people didn't have a GUI <br>
to submit from. It's always been a case of 'Wand to use the cluster? <br>
We'll make your workstation a submit host.'<br>
<br>
I think it's a pretty standard way of handling things it you are an <br>
institute that runs their own (maybe small) cluster, especially if the <br>
workstations are also managed machine.<br>
<br>
Tina<br>
<br>
On 21/11/2018 23:26, Christopher Samuel wrote:<br>
> On 22/11/18 5:04 am, Mahmood Naderan wrote:<br>
> <br>
>> The idea is to have a job manager that find the best node for a newly <br>
>> submitted job. If the user has to manually ssh to a node, why one <br>
>> should use slurm or any other thing?<br>
> <br>
> You are in a really really unusual situation - in 15 years I've not come <br>
> across a situation before this where a user would have GUI access to a <br>
> system that can submit jobs directly to a cluster like you can.<br>
> <br>
> I'm not sure why Slurm has this restriction but it might be that you can <br>
> start up an xterm, change your $DISPLAY to be localhost:0 and see if you <br>
> can start an X11 application from that. It might be that you'll need to <br>
> add an xauth cookie for localhost to get that going.<br>
> <br>
> If it does work then (hopefully) you can use that trick to fire up jobs <br>
> with X11 display forwarding.<br>
> <br>
> All the best,<br>
> Chris<br>
</blockquote></div><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr">Dr Stuart Midgley<br><a href="mailto:sdm900@gmail.com" target="_blank">sdm900@gmail.com</a></div></div>