Running Jobs with Slurm

The Simple Linux Utility for Resource Management (SLURM) is used for submission, scheduling, execution, and monitoring of jobs on the Levante cluster. SLURM is a free open-source resource manager and scheduler. It is a modern, extensible batch system that is widely deployed around the world on clusters of various sizes.

The following topics are treated in this section:

• Slurm Introduction Brief introduction to SLURM commands and ways to allocate resources for job execution and interactive usage of nodes

• Partition and Limits Description of partitions and limits defined on Levante

• Runtime Settings Recommended environment settings that might affect program execution

• Example Batch Scripts Example batch scripts for parallel programs

• Slurm Binding Website Website to visualize the --distribution srun option of Slurm and CPU masks