Preparing, submitting and managing jobs with Slurm

by Damien François (UCLouvain/CISM)

Tuesday 6 Nov 2018, 09:45 → 12:45 Europe/Brussels

DAO (Vinci building)

Slurm is the job manager installed on all CÉCI clusters. The session teaches attendees how to prepare a submission script, how to submit, monitor, and manage jobs on the clusters.

 

Contents: Role and duties of a job scheduler/resource manager  Creating and submitting a job  Setting job constraints and parameters  Managing and monitoring jobs  Working interactively  Getting accounting information for the jobs  How priorities are computed  Creating parallel jobs with shared-memory software Creating parallel jobs with message passing software Creating parallel jobs with master/slave software

Prerequisite: Being able to use SSH with private keys  Being familiar with a text editor  Passive knowledge of parallelisation techniques (OpenMP, MPI) Mastering the Linux command line and the GNU utilities (mkdir, cp, scp, etc.)

Type: Hands-on Target audience: Everyone Must: This session is mandatory.

slurm.pdf