[slurm-users] Persistent Interactive Jobs

[Hadrian Djohari]

OnDemand features from OSC have various "desktop" options that connect
directly to the compute nodes.
https://openondemand.org/


On Fri, Jun 10, 2022 at 9:03 AM Diego Zuccato <diego.zuccato at unibo.it>
wrote:

> 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
> >
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> > Willy Markuske <wmarkuske at sdsc.edu>
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> > *Date: *Thursday, June 9, 2022 at 8:21 PM
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> > *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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> Diego Zuccato
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Hadrian Djohari
Manager of Research Computing Services, [U]Tech
Case Western Reserve University
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