I really don't want to start a flaming discussion on this - but I don't think it's an unusual situation. I have, in likewise roughtly 15 years of doing this, not ever worked anywhere where people didn't have a GUI to submit from. It's always been a case of 'Wand to use the cluster? We'll make your workstation a submit host.'
I think it's a pretty standard way of handling things it you are an institute that runs their own (maybe small) cluster, especially if the workstations are also managed machine. Tina On 21/11/2018 23:26, Christopher Samuel wrote: > On 22/11/18 5:04 am, Mahmood Naderan wrote: > >> The idea is to have a job manager that find the best node for a newly >> submitted job. If the user has to manually ssh to a node, why one >> should use slurm or any other thing? > > You are in a really really unusual situation - in 15 years I've not come > across a situation before this where a user would have GUI access to a > system that can submit jobs directly to a cluster like you can. > > I'm not sure why Slurm has this restriction but it might be that you can > start up an xterm, change your $DISPLAY to be localhost:0 and see if you > can start an X11 application from that. It might be that you'll need to > add an xauth cookie for localhost to get that going. > > If it does work then (hopefully) you can use that trick to fire up jobs > with X11 display forwarding. > > All the best, > Chris
