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Slurm commands summary

Slurm commands summary#

  • Run an interactive job

srun --nodes=1 --ntasks-per-node=1 --time=01:00:00 --pty bash -i --partition=debug

  • Run a job

sbatch run.sh

#!/bin/bash

# Define, how many nodes you need. Here, we ask for 1 node.
# Each node has 16 or 20 CPU cores.
#SBATCH --nodes=1
# Define the partition on which the job shall run. May be omitted.
#SBATCH --partition quiet
# --mem-per-cpu will define memory per CPU/core. Choose one of those.
#SBATCH --mem-per-cpu=1500MB
# The output file for your job.
#SBATCH --output=test-srun.out
# You may not place any commands before the last SBATCH directive

# Define and create a unique scratch directory for this job
SCRATCH_DIRECTORY=/scratch/${USER}/${SLURM_JOBID}
mkdir -p ${SCRATCH_DIRECTORY}
cd ${SCRATCH_DIRECTORY}

cp ${SLURM_SUBMIT_DIR}/myfiles*.txt ${SCRATCH_DIRECTORY}

# your command
time sleep 10

# After the job is done we copy our output back to $SLURM_SUBMIT_DIR
cp ${SCRATCH_DIRECTORY}/my_output ${SLURM_SUBMIT_DIR}

cd ${SLURM_SUBMIT_DIR}
rm -rf ${SCRATCH_DIRECTORY}

exit 0

  • Queue info

squeue

  • lists detailed information for a job

scontrol show jobid -dd <jobid>

  • statistics on completed jobs by jobID

sacct -j <jobid> --format=JobID,JobName,MaxRSS,Elapsed

  • Job deletion

scancel <job_id>

  • Cluster status

sinfo