SLURM is a widely used open-source workload manager providing various advanced features.

• To enable practitioners to comprehend and describe the basic architecture of SLURM and the suite of tools.
• To use relevant tools to run and monitor (parallel) applications.

• Run interactive jobs with salloc, a batch job with sbatch.
• Explain the architecture of SLURM, i.e., the role of slurmd, srun and the injection of environment variables.
• Explain the function of the tools: sacct, sbatch, salloc, srun, scancel, squeue, sinfo.
• Explain time limits and the benefit of a backfill scheduler.
• Comprehend that environment variables are set when running a job.
• Comprehend and describe the expected behavior of simple job scripts.
• Comprehend how variables are prioritized when using the command line and a script.
• Change a provided job template and embed them into shell scripts to run a variety of parallel applications.
• Analyze the output generated from submitting to the job scheduler and typically generated errors.