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 a simple job scripts
• comprehend how variables are prioritized when using 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