Slurm Workload Manager is the job scheduler on Talon 3 and sets up your job to be run on the compute nodes.
Talon 3 Configuration
- One Partition (queue)
- ‘compute’
- Max amount of nodes: 21
- Max amount of CPU cores: 588
- Quality of Service
- Debug
- Limit to 2 hours
- Limit to 2 nodes
- High priority
- General
- Default partition
- Limit to 72 hours
- Limit to 560 CPU cores
- Large
- Allow exclusive jobs
- Unlimited hours
- Limit to 20 nodes
- Low priority
- Debug
Slurm on Talon 3 — Commands
Common Slurm Commands
- Submiting a job : sbatch
- sbatch test.job : Submit a job with a job script (test.job)
- Display job status: squeue
- squeue –u [EUID] : Display user’s job status
- squeue –j [jobID] : display job status of a certain job
- Delete a queuing job: scancel
- scancel [jobID] : delete a job with a certain job ID number
- Modify a pending job: scontrol
- scontrol update PartitionName=debug MaxTime=60:00 MaxNodes=2
- See job accounting information on active/competed jobs: sacct
- sacct –format=jobid,elapsed,ntasks,state