Top "Slurm" questions

Slurm (formerly spelled SLURM) is an open-source resource manager designed for Linux HPC clusters of all sizes.

Find out the CPU time and memory usage of a slurm job

I suppose it's a pretty trivial question but nevertheless, I'm looking for the (sacct I guess) command that will display …

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How to "undrain" slurm nodes in drain state

Using sinfo it shows 3 nodes are in drain state, PARTITION AVAIL TIMELIMIT NODES STATE NODELIST all* up infinite 3 drain node[10,11,12] …

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SLURM `srun` vs `sbatch` and their parameters

I am trying to understand what the difference is between SLURM's srun and sbatch commands. I will be happy with …

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Pass command line arguments via sbatch

Suppose that I have the following simple bash script which I want to submit to a batch server through SLURM: #!/…

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Adding time to a running slurm job

I have a job running a linux machine managed by slurm. Now that the job is running for a few …

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SLURM: see how many cores per node, and how many cores per job

I have searched google and read the documentation. My local cluster is using SLURM. I want to check the following …

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What does the state 'drain' mean?

When I use sinfo I see the following: $ sinfo PARTITION AVAIL TIMELIMIT NODES STATE NODELIST [...] RG3 up 28-00:00:0 1 drain rg3…

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What does the status "CG" mean in SLURM?

On a SLURM cluster one can use squeue to get information about jobs on the system. I know that "R" …

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What does the --ntasks or -n tasks does in SLURM?

I was using SLURM to use some computing cluster and it had the -ntasks or -n. I have obviously read …

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How to submit a job to any [subset] of nodes from nodelist in SLURM?

I have a couple of thousand jobs to run on a SLURM cluster with 16 nodes. These jobs should run only …

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