Command
Definition
sbatch
Submits job scripts into system for execution (queued)
scancel
Cancels a job
scontrol
Used to display Slurm state, several options only available to root
sinfo
Display state of partitions and nodes
squeue
Display state of jobs
salloc
Submit a job for execution, or initiate job in real time
sacct
Displays accounting data and status for all jobs
Specifying resources commands
Syntax
Meaning
--ntasks=
Number of processes to run (default is 1)
--mem=
Total memory (single node)
--mem-per-cpu=
Memory per processor core
--constraint=
Node property to request (e.g. avx, IB)
--partition=<partition_name>
Request specified partition/queue
#!/bin/bash -l
#SBATCH -J ParallelJob
#SBATCH -n 128
#SBATCH -c 1
#SBATCH --time=0-01:00:00
#SBATCH -p batch
module load toolchain/intel
mpirun -n $SLURM_NTASKS [argv] program_executable [argv] ...
#!/bin/bash -l
#SBATCH -J ThreadedJob
#SBATCH -N 1
#SBATCH --ntasks-per-node=1
#SBATCH -c 28
#SBATCH --time=0-01:00:00
#SBATCH -p batch
export OMP_NUM_THREADS=${SLURM_CPUS_PER_TASK}
mpirun -n $SLURM_NTASKS [argv] program_executable [argv] ...
Multi-node hybrid application (MPI+OpenMP) #!/bin/bash -l
#SBATCH -J HybridParallelJob
#SBATCH -N 10
#SBATCH --ntasks-per-node=1
#SBATCH -c 28
#SBATCH --time=0-01:00:00
#SBATCH -p batch
module load toolchain/intel
export OMP_NUM_THREADS=${SLURM_CPUS_PER_TASK}
mpirun -n $SLURM_NTASKS [argv] program_executable [argv] ...
Multi-node multi-GPU MPI application #!/bin/bash -l
#SBATCH -J GPUJob
#SBATCH -N 4
#SBATCH --ntasks-per-socket=4
#SBATCH -c 7
#SBATCH --gres=gpu:4
#SBATCH --time=0-01:00:00
#SBATCH -p gpu
module load toolchain/intel
module load system/CUDA
export OMP_NUM_THREADS=${SLURM_CPUS_PER_TASK}
mpirun -n $SLURM_NTASKS [argv] program_executable [argv] ...
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