Hints for testing jobs, programs, etc.

Starting interactive sessions in slurm:
This is helpful for different problems:

• For testing step-by-step what is happening in a job script.
• To test the environment for jobs running in a queue.
• To test programs, in particular parallel versions.

In slurm this can be done with:
srun --partition=i2x28 --nodes=1 --cpus-per-task=56 --pty bash
The last option 'bash' can be replaced by any (interactive) shell.