To use cluster for interactive jobs type (X11 graphics): qrsh xterm - to work interactively on the node To use whole node for you please type: qrsh –pe smp 8 xterm This mean that parallel environment uses 8 cpus (each node has 8 cpus). To qrsh to specific node (if all slots are not used): qrsh -q all.q@node04.cluster (node names you get from qt or qstat -f) qlogin - to work interactively on the node Please be sure that you have following line in .barhrc (otherwise keybord settings are not correct): export TERM=vt100