SLURM usage summary

View en-queued jobs

squeue -u <username>

View available nodes

sinfo --state=idle

Create and interactive jobs

salloc [SBATCH ARGUMENTS]

SBATCH Arguments

• -c <number of cores> OR --cpus-per-task e.g -c 12 for allocating 12 cores
• -N <number of nodes> OR --nodes <number of nodes> e.g -c 4 for allocating 4 nodes
• -p <name> OR --partition <name> e.g --partition "himem" for using a node of the high memory group
• -C <name> OR --constrain <name> e.g --constrain "coreV2*" for using only nodes with hostname starting with coreV2*
• --exclusive block other jobs running in the node(s)