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The Southpass interface is broken into different areas:
The gold menu bar across the top of the page, which contains tabs for:
Apps - All Applications
Files - Allows you to work with files from different authorized file systems
Jobs - Job management tools
Clusters - Access to and status of different clusters
Interactive Applications - Allow you to run specific tasks or software
Message area, the light yellow ribbon below the task bar, displays useful messages from the system. This is only visible is there is a message.
Pinned Apps, the area on the bottom left of the web page, contains quick access tiles to different applications supported on Southpass.
Message of the day, located in the bottom right corner of the web page, displays any important information about the current day.
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Note: Job composer script is limited in size and defaults to approximately 65kb. If your job script is larger than this then it will not be accepted.
Clusters Dropdown
The clusters drop down This provides a link to obtain shell access to the Teton cluster login nodes. This is the same as using SSH in a command line interface (CLI) to connect to the cluster’s login nodes.
Note: Be aware that on some browsers if you have a custom shell prompt it , some browsers may not display it properly.
Interactive Apps
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You should properly close out the Desktop when you no longer need it. This can be down by using the GUI logout feature or using the Delete button on the job page. This releases all requested resources back to the the system. You should also occasionally delete any old jobs as they are left in your home directory. This can lead to your home directory quote being consumed.
Desktops
The Interactive Desktops The Interactive Apps drop down contains items to launch certain GUI environments on Teton compute nodes (this has limited node support). You will get a complete Linux desktop when you submit the job and connect to the environment. Currently supported GUI environments are Mate and Xfce desktops. Once you have submitted the job, your job will be queued and when resources are available you will be provided a “Launch Teton XX Desktop” button. clicking this button will open a new browser tab and the GUI will be displayed.
You should properly close out the Desktop when you no longer need it. This can be down by using the GUI logout feature or using the Delete button on the job page. This releases all requested resources back to the the system. You should also occasionally delete any old jobs as they are left in your home directory. This can lead to your home directory quote being consumed.
Servers (Applications)
The interactive server part of the Apps drop down contains items to launch certain GUI applications interactively on different Teton cluster compute resources. One then gets a fully functioning application on the requested compute resources. Some of the currently supported applications include:
Jupyter Lab and Notebook
RStudio (not yet available)
RShiny (not yet available)
Paraview (not yet available)
Know Issues
Custom prompts may not show up in the shell windows. To get the prompts you can remove the PS1 setting from you .bashrc or manually reset the PS1 variable in the shell window.
On the desktop launch windows the Compression and Image Quality sliders fail to show the current setting in the slider as detailed at https://github.com/OSC/ondemand/issues/1384
While using the XFCE Interactive Desk, clicking on Home / File System desktop icons.
Resolve: Remove the
.gvfsfolder in your home folder.
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