I’d like to +1 this question. As a newbie who is tasked with supporting slurm in the near future, I’m too very interested on any kind of guidance for how to best support X11 forwarding with Slurm.
Thank you! -Mehmet > On Jun 6, 2017, at 10:02 AM, Loris Bennett <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Edward Walter <[email protected]> writes: > >> On 06/06/2017 05:29 AM, Loris Bennett wrote: >>> >>> Hi, >>> >>> We used to tell users that they could specify the '--x11' option >>> to run a graphical application interactively within a Slurm job. >>> With version 16.05.10-2 this option is no longer available. >>> >>> Is the canonical solution now to use the scripts given here: >>> >>> https://slurm.schedmd.com/faq.html#terminal >>> >>> (or one of the various modifications/forks)? >>> >> Doesn't that functionality come from a spank plugin? >> https://github.com/hautreux/slurm-spank-x11 >> >> Hope that helps. >> >> -Ed > > It may well do, but the last commit is from 11th December 2014. Up to > now I thought '--x11' was the shiny new replacement for the SPANK > plugin. > > I have tried > > https://github.com/jabl/sinteractive.git > > but it didn't really work for me: > > $ sinteractive > Waiting for JOBID 1551288 to start > No screen session found. > No screen session found. > No screen session found. > No screen session found. > There is no screen to be detached matching slurm1551288. > Connection to node001 closed. > > I guess I'll just have to try out some of the other forks, etc. > > Cheers, > > Loris > > > -- > Dr. Loris Bennett (Mr.) > ZEDAT, Freie Universität Berlin Email [email protected]
