Slurm interactive jobs

Slurm interactive sessions allows you to connect to a compute node and work on that node directly. This allows you to develop how your jobs might run e.g., test that commands run as expected before putting them into a script and do heavy development tasks that cannot be done on the login nodes.

To launch an interactive job (using default values, e.g., ntask=1 (1 cpu core), mem=1G, t=24hrs) here is the command: