Interactive Jobs Interactive jobs give you a shell directly on a compute node — useful for testing, debugging, or running applications that need direct input. Basic Interactive Session srun --ntasks=1 -p power-general-shared-pool -A public-users_v2 --qos=public --pty bash On a Specific Node srun --ntasks=1 -p power-general-shared-pool -A public-users_v2 --qos=public --nodelist=compute-0-12 --pty bash With GUI (X11 Forwarding) Make sure you connected to the login node with ssh -X first: srun --ntasks=1 -p power-general-shared-pool -A public-users_v2 --qos=public --x11 --pty bash With Multiple CPUs srun --ntasks=1 --cpus-per-task=4 -p power-general-shared-pool -A public-users_v2 --qos=public --nodes=1 --pty bash Important Interactive jobs consume resources for as long as your session is open — exit when done If your connection drops, the interactive job will terminate For long-running work, use sbatch instead