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Slurm User Commands

Tue, 10/15/2019 - 11:02 — chen

Basic Slurm commands:

sbatch - Submit a batch script to Slurm.
squeue - View information about jobs located in the Slurm scheduling queue.
scancel - Used to signal jobs or job steps that are under the control of Slurm.
scontrol - View or modify Slurm job state.
sinfo - View information about Slurm nodes and partitions.

Convenient Slurm commands:

Information about Jobs:

sbatch --test-only myscript.sh (Verify job script and check when your job is estimated to run)
squeue -u <user> (List all current jobs for a user)
squeue -u <user> -t RUNNING (List all running jobs for a user)
squeue -u <user> -t PENDING (List all pending jobs for a user)
squeue -u <user> -p <production> (List all jobs for a user in the partition of production)
squeue -u <user> --start (List all jobs estimated job start time for a user)
scontrol show jobid -dd <jobid> (List detailed information for a job with specified jobid)

Controlling Jobs:

scancel <jobid1>,<jobid1> (Delete your own jobs with jobid)
scancel -t PENDING -u <user> (Cancel all pending jobs for a user)
scancel --name jobname (Cancel one or more jobs by name)
scontrol hold <jobid> (Hold the job of jobid being scheduled)
scontrol release <jobid> (Release a held job to be scheduled)
scontrol requeue <jobid) (Cancel and rerun a job)

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