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K4.2-B SLURM Workload Manager
Background
SLURM is a widely used open-source workload manager providing various advanced features.
Aim
- 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
Outcomes
- 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 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
Subskills
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