1. dalma-slurm_commands
2. Dalma Manual
3. dalma-slurm_commands

Useful SLURM commands (checking, canceling jobs, etc..)

SYNOPSIS

Here is a list of the commands most commonly used by users

DESCRIPTION

sbatch: Submit script for execution

salloc: Job allocation NOT AVAILABLE ON DALMA

srun: Launch a job step (typically an MPI application)

scancel: Cancel a job

sinfo: Report system status (nodes, queues, etc.)

squeue: Report job and job step status

EXAMPLES

1.- Submitting a parallel job specified in the script run.slurm

$> sbatch -p parallel run.slurm
Submitted batch job 6166

2.- List the status of the queues

$> squeue 
JOBID PARTITION     NAME     USER ST       TIME  NODES NODELIST(REASON)
6167  par_std  run.pbs    user1  R       0:00      2 gpu-18-[14-15]  
6166  par_std test_par    user1  R       0:05      2 gpu-18-[12-13]

3.- Cancel a job with ID 6166

$> scancel 6166 

4.- srun to spawn an MPI job inside a submission script

$> cat run.slurm
    #!/bin/bash 
    #SBATCH -n 56
    #SBATCH -p parallel  
    #SBATCH -o job.%J.out
    #SBATCH -e job.%J.err
    module purge
    srun   ./mpi-hello

AUTHORS

NYUAD HPC Apps Team:
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    - Benoit Marchand
    - Guowei He
    - Jorge Naranjo

SEE ALSO

Please refer to the online documentation available here

1. NYUAD
2. February 2017
3. dalma-slurm_commands