Running GUI Applications on Compute Nodes

Prerequisite

Additional software will be required on your Windows or macOS computer to do this. Linux computers usually have it installed by default.

See:

• Tips for Windows Users
• Tips for macOS Users

Launching GUI Apps on Picotte using Slurm

In brief:

1. Run a terminal on a compute node
2. Launch the GUI application from that terminal

This example will use Matlab, but the same process works for SAS, Stata, and any other GUI application.

[juser@picotte001 ~]$ module load matlab
[juser@picotte001 ~]$ srun --x11 --nodes=1 --ntasks=1 --cpus-per-task=16 --mem=60G --pty /bin/bash
srun: job 3478053 queued and waiting for resources
srun: job 3478053 has been allocated resources
[juser@node001 ~]$ matlab &

To close the remote graphical session, simply quit the application as usual.