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--- using-slurm [2019/02/01 12:30] – [Using SLURM] jean-baka
+++ using-slurm [2019/02/01 12:37] – [Check queue status] jean-baka
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   * highmem
-"debug" is the default queue, which is useful for testing job parameters, program paths, etc. The run-time limit of the "debug" partition is 5 minutes, after which jobs are killed.
+"debug" is the default queue, which is useful for testing job parameters, program paths, etc. The run-time limit of the "debug" partition is 5 minutes, after which jobs are killed. The other partitions have no set time limit.
 To see more information about the queue configuration, use ''sinfo -lNe''.
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-The above tells you, for instance, that compute04 has 8 CPUs while compute2 has 64 CPUs. And that a job sent to the "highmem" partition (a SLURM verb equivalent to "queue", as per the vocabulary in use with other schedulers e.g. Sun Grid Engine), then it will end up being run on either compute03 or mammoth.
+The above tells you, for instance, that compute04 has 8 CPUs while compute2 has 64 CPUs. And that a job sent to the "highmem" partition (a SLURM verb equivalent to "queue", as per the vocabulary in use with other schedulers, e.g. Sun Grid Engine), then it will end up being run on either compute03 or mammoth.
 ===== Submitting jobs =====
 ==== Interactive jobs ====
-How to get an interactive session, ie when you want to interact with a program (like R, etc):
+How to get an interactive session, i.e. when you want to interact with a program (like R, etc) for a limited amount of time, making the scheduler aware that you are requesting/using resources on the cluster:
 <code>[aorth@hpc: ~]$ interactive
 salloc: Granted job allocation 1080
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 ==== Check queue status ====
-''squeue'' is the command to use to get more information about the different jobs that are running on the cluster, waiting in a queue for resources to become available, or halted for some reason:
+''squeue'' is the command to use in order to get information about the different jobs that are running on the cluster, waiting in a queue for resources to become available, or halted for some reason:
 <code>[jbaka@compute03 ~]$ squeue
              JOBID PARTITION     NAME     USER ST       TIME  NODES NODELIST(REASON)