Start a GUI Interactive Session through X2Go

Weijun GaoPosted on Posted in Cluster Info, Linux Shell, Quick Start, Slurm

Once you sign into the UTSC Psychology research cluster using X2Go, you can follow the following instructions to start a GUI session by enabling X Forwarding (–x11).

  1. Open a terminal
  2. Run srun command to start a GUI session on the default “cpu” Slurm partition, for example,
    srun -c 2 --x11 --pty bash -i