Welcome to GfxLauncher - A graphical application launcher for SLURM

Contents:

• Introduction
• Technical overview
• Application launch methods
  • SSH based application launching
  • VGLConnect based application launching
  • Notebook job launching
  • VM based application launching
• Installation
  • Downloading
  • Installing
  • Requirements
  • Setting runtime environment for all users
• Configuration of launcher (gfxlaunch)
  • General configuration section - [general]
  • SLURM configuration section - [slurm]
  • Menu configuration section - [menu]
  • VirtualGL configuration - [vgl]
  • XFreeRDP configuration - [xfreerdp]
  • Jupyter related settings - [jupyter]
• Configuration of Windows VM allocation
  • Installing prolog/epilog script in SLURM
  • Configuration of SLURM virtual node
  • Configuring the VM backend
  • The [DEFAULT] section
  • The [win10-default] section
  • The virtual server configuration sections
• Configuring nodes for SSH execution (pam_exec)
  • Adding pam_exec to /etc/pam.d/sshd
  • Adding pam_ssh_exec.sh script to /sbin
• Launching applications with gfxlaunch
  • Command line switches
  • Running standard X11 application (No graphics)
  • Running applications using hardware accelerated graphics
  • Running Jupyter Notebooks and Jupyter Labs
  • Running Windows based desktop applications
• Generating menus with gfxconvert
  • Creating shell scripts for use with gfxconvert
  • Generating the client scripts with gfxconvert
  • Adding menus to shared desktop setup
• Code documentation
  • jobs module
  • launcher module (Main user interface)
  • desktop module - Menu generation classes
  • config module - Configuration management classes
  • lrms module - SLURM interface classes
  • remote module - Remote execution classes

Indices and tables

• Index
• Module Index
• Search Page