Speaker
Damien François
(UCLouvain/CISM)
Description
Slurm is the job manager installed on all CÉCI clusters. This session teaches attendees how to prepare submission scripts, submit jobs, monitor their execution, manage resources efficiently, and debug common issues encountered on the clusters.
| Contents | Information |
|---|---|
| • Role of a job scheduler • Creating and submitting a job • Setting job constraints and parameters • Managing and monitoring jobs • Working interactively • Getting accounting information • How priorities are computed • Creating basic submission scripts • Best practices |
Prerequisite: • Being able to use SSH with private keys • Being familiar with a text editor • Mastering the Linux command line and GNU utilities Follow-up: • Checkpointing to make jobs fit maximum allowed execution times • Workflows to organise jobs and experiments • Advanced Slurm to write more complex parallel submission scripts Type: Hands-on Target audience: Everyone Must: This session is mandatory. |