Submitting serial jobs

Sample script

Serial job sample script – sample.sub

#!/bin/bash

# Job name
#SBATCH --job-name=test-serial
#
# Set partition [change]
#SBATCH --partition=devel
#
# STDOUT file; "N" is node number and "j" job id number
#SBATCH --output=test-serial_%N_%j.out
# STDERR file; "N" is node number and "j" job id number
#SBATCH --error=test-serial_%N_%j.err
#
# Number of tasks per node
#SBATCH --ntasks=1
# Memory requirement per CPU
#SBATCH --mem-per-cpu=1G
#
# Total wall-time
#SBATCH --time=00:05:00
#
# To get email alert [Optional] 
# NOTE: Remove one "#" and "write your email ID" (ex: #SBATCH --mail-user=hemanta.kumar@icts.res.in)
##SBATCH --mail-user= email id
##SBATCH --mail-type=ALL

date
cd /home/hemanta.kumar/slurm_test
./long_run
date

Submit job:

sbatch sample.sub

The job’s status in the queue can be monitored with squeue; (add -u username to focus on a particular user’s jobs).

The job can be deleted with scancel <job_id> .

When the job finishes (in error or correctly) there will normally be one file created in the submission directory with the name of the form slurm-NNNN.out (where NNNN is the job id).

Submit script flags