sbatch – Tarik Billa

How to submit a job to any [subset] of nodes from nodelist in SLURM?

August 31, 2023 by Tarik

You can work the other way around; rather than specifying which nodes to use, with the effect that each job is allocated all the 7 nodes, specify which nodes not to use: sbatch –exclude=myCluster[01-09] myScript.sh and Slurm will never allocate more than 7 nodes to your jobs. Make sure though that the cluster configuration allows … Read more

SLURM `srun` vs `sbatch` and their parameters

November 22, 2022 by Tarik

The documentation says srun is used to submit a job for execution in real time while sbatch is used to submit a job script for later execution. They both accept practically the same set of parameters. The main difference is that srun is interactive and blocking (you get the result in your terminal and you … Read more