Dave, My platform is Rocks with Centos 7.0. It may not be exactly your case, but it may help you with some ideas on what to do. I used https://github.com/hautreux/slurm-spank-x11 and here is the guide which Ian Mortimer told me:
There should be a binary slurm-spank-x11 and a library x11.so which have to be installed in the correct locations. Two configuration files also have to be installed. These have to be installed on all compute nodes as well as the head node or login node(s) so the simplest way is to build a package. Fortunately a spec file is included in the spank-x11 distribution but I had to make some changes to make it usable. Move slurm-spank-x11-0.2.5.tar.gz to ~/rpmbuild/SOURCES My modified spec file is attached. Copy that to ~/rpmbuild/SPECS and run: rpmbuild -bb --clean ~/rpmbuild/SPECS/slurm-spank-x11.spec That should build a package: ~/rpmbuild/RPMS/x86_64/slurm-spank-x11-0.2.5-3.x86_64.rpm Copy that package to /export/rocks/install/contrib/7.0/x86_64/RPMS/ and add the package to the package list in: /export/rocks/install/site-profiles/7.0/nodes/extend-compute.xml If you use login node(s) also add it to the package list in: /export/rocks/install/site-profiles/7.0/nodes/extend-login.xml Then rebuild the distro with the new package added: cd /export/rocks/install; rocks create distro Now you need to install it on the login node(s) (or front end) and all the compute nodes. You can use pdsh or 'rocks run host' for that. The last step is to create the file /etc/slurm/plugstack.conf to enable plugins: echo 'include /etc/slurm/plugstack.conf.d/*' \ >> /etc/slurm/plugstack.conf Copy that file to the compute nodes and login node(s) and to ensure the file is created when you reinstall your nodes or install new nodes you also need to add the command to the %post section of extend-compute.xml (and extend-login.xml if you're using it). When that's all done restart slurm everywhere with: rocks sync slurm You should then be able to get an interactive login with: srun --x11 --pty bash Regards, Mahmood On Tue, Oct 16, 2018 at 5:04 PM Dave Botsch <bot...@cnf.cornell.edu> wrote: > > Hi. > > Reminder :)
