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Interactive

The interactive command gives to the user an interactive shell in the cluster with slurm allocation. In other words, it allocates the user to a specific node of the cluster so that the jobs can be executed there without disturbing the rest of the users.

Usage

Once you enter the bbgcluster, you will see in the terminal <username>@login01. It is here where, if you want to be allocated to your own node, you can just run the command:

$ interactive

If the login01 has changed to bbgn### where ### is the number identifying the current node.

Apart from the basic use, there are optional arguments/flags for extra features:

interactive [-c] [-m] [-w] [-J] [-x] [-p]
  • -c: Number of CPU cores (default: 1)
  • -m: Total amount of memory (GB) (default: 8 [GB])
  • -w: Target node
  • -J: Job name
  • -x: Binary that you want to run interactively
  • -p: specify queue (see queues)

Reference

  • Jordi Deu-Pons
  • Miguel Grau
  • Carlos López-Elorduy