Setup an Interactive Queue

Setup the queue

• lsb.queues file
• once updated, run addhost -u to sync
• bqueues to check the available queues

# Example conf, administrators/priority/hosts will differ from cluster to cluster
Begin Queue
QUEUE_NAME=interactive
DESCRIPTION=default for interactive jobs
ADMINISTRATORS=user2 userGroupA
PRIORITY=80
INTERACTIVE=ONLY
NEW_JOB_SCHED_DELAY=0
HOSTS=hostGroupB+5 hostGroupA+2 others
End Queue

Submit an interactive job

bsub -Ip -XF bash -l

X-forwarding not working

• Ensure xorg-x11-xauth and xterm are installed

# use ngedit to select the following pacakges 
- xorg-x11-xauth
- xterm