How to Submit, Monitor and Manage Jobs

Submit Jobs

Use Torque/Moab Command Slurm Equivalent
Submit batch job qsub <jobscript> sbatch <jobscript>
Submit interactive job qsub -I [options]

sinteractive [options]

salloc [options]

Interactive jobs

Submitting interactive jobs is a bit different in Slurm. When the job is ready, one is logged into the login node they submitted the job from. From there, one can then login to one of the reserved nodes.

You can use the custom tool sinteractive as:

[xwang@pitzer-login04 ~]$ sinteractive
salloc: Pending job allocation 14269
salloc: job 14269 queued and waiting for resources
salloc: job 14269 has been allocated resources
salloc: Granted job allocation 14269
salloc: Waiting for resource configuration
salloc: Nodes p0591 are ready for job
...
...
[xwang@p0593 ~] $
# can now start executing commands interactively

Or, you can use salloc as:

[user@pitzer-login04 ~] $ salloc -t 00:05:00 --ntasks-per-node=3
salloc: Pending job allocation 14209
salloc: job 14209 queued and waiting for resources
salloc: job 14209 has been allocated resources
salloc: Granted job allocation 14209
salloc: Waiting for resource configuration
salloc: Nodes p0593 are ready for job

# normal login display
$ squeue
JOBID PARTITION     NAME     USER ST       TIME  NODES NODELIST(REASON)
14210 serial-48     bash     usee  R       0:06      1 p0593
[user@pitzer-login04 ~]$ srun --jobid=14210 --pty /bin/bash
# normal login display
[user@p0593 ~] $
# can now start executing commands interactively

Manage Jobs

Use Torque/Moab Command Slurm Equivalent
Delete a job qdel <jobid>  scancel <jobid>
Hold a job qhold <jobid> scontrol hold <jobid>
Release a job qrls <jobid>  scontrol release <jobid>

Monitor Jobs

Use Torque/Moab Command Slurm Equivalent
Job list summary qstat or showq squeue
Detailed job information qstat -f <jobid> or checkjob <jobid> sstat -j <jobid> or scontrol show job <jobid>
Job information by a user qstat -u <user> squeue -u <user>

View job script

(system admin only)

 js <jobid> jobscript <jobid>
Show expected start time showstart <job ID> squeue --start --jobs=<jobid>
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