Updated 2021-12-15
Interactive Compute Sessions¶
There are two possible methods to gain an interactive session on the compute nodes.
The PBS directives used below are the same as the batch PBS jobs. See the PBS Scripting Guide for explanations of the PBS directives.
Manual qsub submission¶
An interactive session can be create using the -I
flag with a set of PBS directives. As an example,
$ qsub -l walltime=02:00:00 -l nodes=3:ppn=4 -l pmem=1gb -q inferno -I -A GT-gburdell3
creates a session for 2 hours for 3 nodes with 4 processors apiece and 1 GB of memory per processor on the inferno queue. Please include your charge account with the -A
flag on Phoenix and Firebird.
pace-interact
session¶
The pace-interact
command wraps the request for an interactive session. The usage of the command is
$ pace-interact -q inferno -l nodes=1:ppn=4 -l pmem=2gb -A GT-gburdell3
The only required option is the -q
queue. The default session will be 1 hour with 1 node and 1 processor.