Allocating resources on Ibex for interactive computing

Before launching an interactive job on Ibex you will need to allocate resources for interactive use using SLURM. The bash scripts in this repository partially automate this process for you.

To use these scripts clone this repo into /ibex/fscratch/$USERNAME. For example, suppose that you wish to allocate resources on SLURM that mimic Amazon Web Services (AWS) Instance Types. In this case you would run the following command.

$ source ./aws.sh

This loads a number of functions which define resource allocations designed to mimic instance types found on AWS. For example, to allocate compute resources on Ibex via SLURM similar to those of a p3.2xlarge instance type on AWS for 30 minutes you would run the following command

$ p3_2xlarge --time=30:00 --resv-ports=1