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Why does sludge exist? There are a few graphical interfaces out there for monitoring and interacting with a SLURM cluster such as sview as well as slurm-web which ships with SLURM. However, those require either a Remote Desktop Connection or a web browser, or sometimes both depending on how access to your cluster is configured. Those who feel most comfortable in a terminal shell often opt out of going through the trouble to connect to these UIs and instead rely on simply running commands through an SSH connection to a head node (sbatch, squeue, scancel, etc....

Installation Linux Create a bin directory and download the sludge binary there. mkdir -p $HOME/bin cd $HOME/bin wget -P $HOME/bin https://github.com/samredai/sludge/releases/download/0.1.0-alpha.1/sludge-linux-amd64 -O sludge chmod +x $HOME/bin/sludge Add the bin directory to your PATH variable by including the following in your ~/.bashrc file. export PATH=$HOME/bin:$PATH Usage The sludge terminal UI can be opened using the sludge command. sludge The sludge UI can be closed using either Ctrl+C or Ctrl+D. Filtering to a Specific User The --username argument opens sludge with all views filtered to a specific user....