Using Torque to launch Interactive Session

Some simple uses of Torque commands

To launch an Interactive session asking for 4 nodes with 8 cores each
$ qsub -N demo -I -l nodes=4:ppn=8,walltime=01:00:00 scriptfile
where
  • -I:  Interactive Session
  • nodes: Server
  • ppn: Cores
To launch Interactive X11 Session
$ qsub -I -X -l nodes=4:ppn=8,walltime:01:00:00 scriptfile
If you are using windows as your client and you wish to display X11 on your windows, do look at
using Putty, X11 to forward X11
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