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@@ -40,9 +40,13 @@ To use the reservation in a job script:
 Reserve a node for interactive use, do not work on the login nodes. See [VSC Wiki](https://docs.vsc.ac.at/running_jobs/interactive_jobs/).
 
 
+```
+salloc -N 1 --qos=skylake_0096 --partition=skylake_0096 --reservation=p72044 --exclusive -t 2:00:00
+```
 
+The ssh into the reserved node. You can check the reserved node with
 ```
-interactivejobs -N 1 skylake_0096 --qos skylake_0096 --exclusive -t 2:00:00
+squeue -u $USER
 ```
 
 Get and untar the tarball and enter the model code directory: