The standard operating system on the cluster is Redhat linux. However, another operating system can be run on the cluster using virtual images. For example, It is possible to run windows OS and windows based application on Griffith HPC. The following HowTo will outline the steps involved. There are some limitations which will be mentioned at the end.
Connect to the Desktop of Griffith HPC Head Node
Use any one of the two methods to connect to the desktop:
Connecting to the Desktop of Griffith HPC Head Node
strudel - Connect to the HPC Facility using a Graphical Interface
Open a Terminal on the desktop
Submit an interactive PBS job with -X option and Queue qweek_s.
e.g: qsub -I -X -q qweek_s -l walltime=01:00:00
There would be a wait time especially if enough resouces are not available. You will get a meesage like this when the job is success full
>>>>>> qsub: job 4260247.pbsserver ready ########################### Execution Started ############################# JobId:4260247.pbsserver UserName:s1234567 GroupName:1234567 ExecutionHost:n048 WorkingDir:/var/spool/PBS/mom_priv ###############################################################################