[torqueusers] X Forwarding of Jobs

[Justin Finnerty]

On Wed, 2008-12-10 at 01:35 -0700, Chris Vaughan wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have a question about how you could set the following up.
> 
> We have a cluster with submission/login nodes users login to those nodes and submit jobs to the cluster.  They are usually doing this from home or at a terminal that is not a login node.  What some of the users would like is to foward back the x display of an interactive job.  Is there a way to forward this outside of the cluster and back to the users computer at home with Torque?
> 

Why can't they do "ssh -A -X" from home then "qsub -I -X"?  If this
fails I would suspect that libX11 is not installed on the compute nodes.

For Windows/Putty + Xserver the process is virtually identical---you
just have to find the X11 tunnel options in the set-up dialog. If your
Xserver is Xming you can use ssh and start an xterm on the login node
using settings from the XLaunch program.  This should work even through
firewalls as the X protocol is tunneled through the ssh connection.

> Thanks,
> 
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