The sbatch command is used to submit a batch script to Slurm. Slurm will reject the job at submission time if there are requests or constraints that Slurm cannot fulfill as specified. This gives the user the opportunity to examine the job request and resubmit it with the necessary corrections.
To submit a batch script, while logged into the cluster (i.e. ssh to the cluster and be on a login node), simply run: sbatch <jobScriptFile>
Below are additional job commands one might run.
COMMON JOB COMMANDS
| Command | Slurm |
| Submit a job | sbatch <job script> |
| Delete a job | scancel <job ID> |
| Job status (all) | squeue |
| Job status (by job) | squeue -j <job ID> |
| Job status (by user) | sq (equivalent of: squeue -u <your_uniqname>)
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| Job status (detailed) | scontrol show job -dd <job ID> |
| Show expected start time | squeue -j <job ID> --start |
| Queue list / info | scontrol show partition <name> |
| Node list | scontrol show nodes |
| Node details | scontrol show <node> |
| Hold a job | scontrol hold <job ID> |
| Release a job | scontrol release <job ID> |
| Cluster status | sinfo |
| Start an interactive job | salloc <args> |
| X forwarding | salloc <args> --x11 |
| Read stdout messages at runtime | No equivalent command / not needed. Use the --output option instead. |
| Monitor or review a job’s resource usage | sacct -j <job_num> --format JobID,jobname,NTasks,nodelist,CPUTime,ReqMem,Elapsed
(see sacct for all format options) |
| View job batch script | scontrol write batch_script <jobID> |
| View accounts you can submit to | sacctmgr show assoc user=$USER |
| View users with access to an account | sacctmgr show assoc account=<account> |
| View default submission account and wckey | sacctmgr show user <account> |