[slurm-users] Persistent Interactive Jobs

[Diego Zuccato]

Why not launch their job inside a screen session? Then they can 
reconnect by "screen -r" after logging in on the worker node.
Way lighter than VNC, but does not support X.

Il 10/06/2022 13:58, Burian, John ha scritto:
> Perhaps a remote desktop solution like TurboVNC? Users can disconnect 
> and reconnect to the desktop for the duration of the allocation.
> 
> John
> 
> *From: *slurm-users <slurm-users-bounces at lists.schedmd.com> on behalf of 
> Willy Markuske <wmarkuske at sdsc.edu>
> *Reply-To: *Slurm User Community List <slurm-users at lists.schedmd.com>
> *Date: *Thursday, June 9, 2022 at 8:21 PM
> *To: *"slurm-users at lists.schedmd.com" <slurm-users at lists.schedmd.com>
> *Subject: *[slurm-users] Persistent Interactive Jobs
> 
> 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
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> 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,
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> Willy Markuske
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