Using Torque to launch Interactive Session

Some simple uses of Torque commands

To launch an Interactive session asking for 4 nodes with 8 cores each

$ qsub -N demo -I -l nodes=4:ppn=8,walltime=01:00:00 scriptfile

where

• -I:  Interactive Session
• nodes: Server
• ppn: Cores

To launch Interactive X11 Session

$ qsub -I -X -l nodes=4:ppn=8,walltime:01:00:00 scriptfile

If you are using windows as your client and you wish to display X11 on your windows, do look at
using Putty, X11 to forward X11