[slurm-users] Persistent Interactive Jobs

[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/groups.

Brian Andrus

On 6/9/2022 5:19 PM, Willy Markuske wrote:
>
> 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 python shell to work in directly for testing.
>
> I've attempted to use salloc and ssh to attach to the job but 
> allocations are relinquished when the user leaves the submit node. Is 
> there an easy way for a user to create a job allocation that spawns a 
> terminal they can attach and unattach from? I'm looking at different 
> ways to create a job that will spawn tmux and stay open, but it would 
> be great if there was a way to directly attach/dettach to the output 
> of a spawned terminal they could just ssh too.
>
> Regards,
>
> -- 
>
> Willy Markuske
>
> HPC Systems Engineer
>
> 	
>
> Research Data Services
>
> P: (619) 519-4435
>
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