Slurm

Introduction

Slurm [1] is a workload manager for clusters, offering both batch and interactive job scheduling. It works over a text based interface on the linux terminal.

Slurm will provide you with the following to help you make use of the cluster;

1. What resources are available on the cluster.
2. Queuing and allocation of jobs based on specified resources.
3. Job monitoring and status reporting.

These commands include:

 $ sinfo  
 $ squeue 
 $ sbatch  
 $ sacct