[slurm-users] About x11 support

[Stu Midgley]

indeed.

All our workstations are submit hosts and in the queue, so people can run
jobs on their local host if they want.

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).

On Thu, Nov 22, 2018 at 6:28 PM Tina Friedrich <tina.friedrich at it.ox.ac.uk>
wrote:

> I really don't want to start a flaming discussion on this - but I don't
> think it's an unusual situation. I have, in likewise roughtly 15 years
> of doing this, not ever worked anywhere where people didn't have a GUI
> to submit from. It's always been a case of 'Wand to use the cluster?
> We'll make your workstation a submit host.'
>
> I think it's a pretty standard way of handling things it you are an
> institute that runs their own (maybe small) cluster, especially if the
> workstations are also managed machine.
>
> Tina
>
> On 21/11/2018 23:26, Christopher Samuel wrote:
> > On 22/11/18 5:04 am, Mahmood Naderan wrote:
> >
> >> The idea is to have a job manager that find the best node for a newly
> >> submitted job. If the user has to manually ssh to a node, why one
> >> should use slurm or any other thing?
> >
> > You are in a really really unusual situation - in 15 years I've not come
> > across a situation before this where a user would have GUI access to a
> > system that can submit jobs directly to a cluster like you can.
> >
> > I'm not sure why Slurm has this restriction but it might be that you can
> > start up an xterm, change your $DISPLAY to be localhost:0 and see if you
> > can start an X11 application from that.  It might be that you'll need to
> > add an xauth cookie for localhost to get that going.
> >
> > If it does work then (hopefully) you can use that trick to fire up jobs
> > with X11 display forwarding.
> >
> > All the best,
> > Chris
>


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