Application Details
Common Slurm Commands
| Command
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Description
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| sbatch
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Submits a batch script to SLURM. The batch script may be given to sbatch through a file name on the command line, or if no file name is specified, sbatch will read in a script from standard input.
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| squeue
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Used to view job and job step information for jobs managed by SLURM.
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| scancel
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Used to signal or cancel jobs, job arrays or job steps.
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| sinfo
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Used to view partition and node information for a system running SLURM.
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sbatch
[username@login01 ~]$ sbatch jobfile.job
Submitted batch job 289535
squeue
[username@login01 ~]$ squeue
JOBID PARTITION NAME USER ST TIME NODES NODELIST(REASON)
306414 compute clasDFT 495711 R 16:36 1 c006
306413 compute mpi_benc 535286 R 31:02 2 c[005,007]
306411 compute orca_1n 442104 R 1:00:32 1 c004
306410 compute orca_1n 442104 R 1:04:17 1 c003
306409 highmem cnv_obit 524274 R 11:37:17 1 c232
306407 compute 20M4_20 535822 R 11:45:54 1 c012
306406 compute 20_ML_20 535822 R 11:55:40 1 c012
scancel
[username@login01 ~]$ scancel 289535
sinfo
[username@login01 ~]$ sinfo
PARTITION AVAIL TIMELIMIT NODES STATE NODELIST
compute* up 2-00:00:00 9 mix c[006,012,014,016,018-020,022,170]
compute* up 2-00:00:00 11 alloc c[003-004,008,015,046,086,093,098,138,167-168]
compute* up 2-00:00:00 156 idle c[001-002,005,007,009-011,013,017,021,023-045,047-085,087-092,094-097,099-137,139-166,169,171-176]
highmem up 4-00:00:00 1 mix c230
highmem up 4-00:00:00 2 alloc c[231-232]
highmem up 4-00:00:00 1 idle c233
gpu up 5-00:00:00 4 idle gpu[01-04]
Common Submission Flags
| Flag
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Description
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| -J / --job-name
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Specify a name for the job
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| -N / --nodes
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Specifies the number of nodes to be allocated to a job
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| -n / --ntasks
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Specifies the allocation of resources e.g. for 1 Compute Node the maximum would be 28
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| -o / --output
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Specifies the name of the output file
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| -e / --error
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Specifies the name of the error file
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| -p / --partition
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Specifies the specific partition for the job e.g. compute, highmem, gpu
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| --exclusive
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Requests exclusive access to nodes preventing other jobs from running
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