Tools to connect to and interact with the Mila cluster

Overview

milatools

The milatools package provides the mila command, which is meant to help with connecting to and interacting with the Mila cluster.

Install

Requires Python >= 3.8

pip install git+git://github.com/mila-iqia/milatools.git

After installing milatools, start with mila init:

mila init

Commands

mila init

Set up your access to the mila cluster interactively. Have your username and password ready!

  • Set up your SSH config for easy connection with ssh mila
  • Set up your public key if you don't already have them
  • Copy your public key over to the cluster for passwordless auth
  • Set up a public key on the login node to enable ssh into compute nodes

mila code

Connect a VSCode instance to a compute node. mila code first allocates a compute node using slurm (you can pass slurm options as well), and then calls the code command with the appropriate options to start a remote coding session on the allocated node.

You can simply Ctrl+C the process to end the session.

usage: mila code [-h] PATH ...

positional arguments:
  PATH
  SLURM_OPTS

optional arguments:
  -h, --help  show this help message and exit

For example:

mila code path/to/my/experiment
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