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Quickstart

The job scheduler used on Lucia is Slurm Workload Manager version 23.02.

A quick start guide explaining the basics is available on Slurm's official website along with the full documentation.

For former PBS users

You may also want to check out the Rosetta Stone of job schedulers which is a conversion table of commands, variables, etc. between various job schedulers.

Commands

Here is a list of the mostly used SLURM commands:

  • sinfo: to view information about nodes and partitions
  • sbatch: to submit batch scripts
  • srun: to initiate parallel job steps within a job, and also to start an interactive job
  • salloc: to request an interactive allocation, and then use srun to execute parallel task on the allocated resources
  • scancel: to cancel a job
  • squeue: to view queued jobs
  • scontrol: to view various information about Slurm, e.g job information with scontrol show <jobid>