Office of Research Computing

Can I log into individual nodes to submit jobs?

Users should not log into individual nodes to run jobs. Users have to submit jobs to the scheduler on the head node. Compute intensive jobs running on nodes that are not under scheduler control (i.e. directly started on the nodes) will be killed without notice.

Users can log into nodes on which their jobs are running which were previously submitted via the scheduler. This ability to ssh into individual nodes is only for checking on your job/(s) that is currently running on that node. Please note that if users are using this mode of “sshing” into nodes to start new jobs on the nodes without going through the scheduler, then their ability to ssh into nodes to check on jobs will be removed.