An interactive app designed for Delta OnDemand that launches a Desktop batch job via singularity image.

Forked from https://github.com/AdvancedResearchComputing/OnDemandApps/tree/main/bc_vt_desktop

This Batch Connect app requires the following software be installed on the compute nodes that the batch job is intended to run on (NOT the OnDemand node):

• Lmod 6.0.1+ or any other module restore and module load <modules> based CLI used to load appropriate environments within the batch job before launching the Singularity image.

• Singularity 3.7.1+

• Corresponding module to launch the above Singularity image (see example_module)

Gather your requirements, You will need to provide:

• Account
• Reservation (optional)
• Matlab version (optional)
• No of hours
• No of CPUs you need
• No of GPUs you need

Note: partition of GPU may change based on different clusters use sinfo on cluster or else refer documentation links below

• Cluster

For details of VT cluster Read More. For VT users without allocation you can use "personal". Read More

Open your on demand portal and click the app:

Fill in the required details:

Click Launch and your Desktop will be ready in few minutes:

All your running jobs are available under "My Interactive Sessions":

Want to install this app on your OOD System ?

Follow our Dev Guide