[Beowulf] Users abusing screen

Prentice Bisbal prentice at ias.edu
Fri Oct 21 09:07:27 PDT 2011


On 10/21/2011 11:06 AM, Kilian Cavalotti wrote:
> Hi Prentice,
> 
> On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 4:44 PM, Prentice Bisbal <prentice at ias.edu> wrote:
>>> Have you thought about queueing systems like condor or SGE?
>>
>> Yes, I have cluster that uses SGE, and we allow users to run serial jobs
>> (non-MPI, etc.) there, so there is no need for them to use screen to
>> execute long-running jobs. Hence my frustration.
> 
> You could alias "screen" to "qlogin". :)

Actually, I can't for reasons I can't get into here. But something like
that was part of my original "master plan".

--
Prentice



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