Docker-Interactive LSF Queue

MGI has had an interactive LSF queue for years that's useful for messing around with tools in the same environment that HPC jobs run in. With Docker seeing more and more use around MGI, we thought it would be useful to add a docker-interactive queue. In addition, we've increased the run limit on both queues to 1 week (from 24 hours).

We've also pushed out a new docker-interactive command to all hosts that use LSF. If you run this command without any arguments, you'll get an interactive session in the lucid-default container, which is based on Ubuntu Lucid with basic tools like wget and vim installed (you can see the full Dockerfile here). You can also pass the command a Docker image and it'll use that instead.

All of the hosts behind the interactive and docker-interactive queues use the same NFS server as workstations (ces-workstation), which should help keep things stable and responsive.

If you have any problems using the docker-interactive queue or command, let us know in a Support Desk issue and we'll get to it as soon as we can. Have a good weekend!