[slurm-users] x11 for interactive jobs

[Mahmood Naderan]

Thanks for responses.

Ian,
I will contact you.

Regards,
Mahmood




On Tue, May 15, 2018 at 12:15 PM, Marco Ehlert
<Marco.Ehlert at mpikg.mpg.de> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> if you are compiling slurm 17.11.5 the --x11 option will be in only if
> libssh2.so is installed before.
> Otherwise there will be no such option.
>
> Best,
> Marco
>
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> On Tue, 15 May 2018, Ian Mortimer wrote:
>
>> On Mon, 2018-05-14 at 23:14 +0430, Mahmood Naderan wrote:
>>
>>> I see --x11 option in [1], but there isn't any such option. Is that
>>> for old versions? Also, there is a wrapper [2] for srun.x11. Is there
>>> any builtin x11 support in slurm?
>>
>>
>> There is native X11 support in slurm but after testing it and reading
>> the list archives, I decided it wasn't reliable enough to use in
>> production and reverted to using the spank plugin which does work
>> reliably.
>>
>> Are you using rocks?  I can send some instructions for installing the
>> X11 spank plugin on rocks if you're interested.
>>
>>
>> Regards
>> --
>> Ian
>
>