8 Using SLURM

HP XC uses the Simple Linux Utility for Resource Management (SLURM) for system resource management and job scheduling.

This chapter addresses the following topics:

Introduction to SLURM (page 63)SLURM Utilities (page 63)

Launching Jobs with the srun Command (page 63)

Monitoring Jobs with the squeue Command (page 64)Terminating Jobs with the scancel Command (page 65)Getting System Information with the sinfo Command (page 65)Job Accounting (page 65)Fault Tolerance (page 66)Security (page 66)

Introduction to SLURM

SLURM is a reliable, efficient, open source, fault-tolerant, job and compute resource manager with features that make it suitable for large-scale, high performance computing environments. SLURM can report on machine status, perform partition management, job management, and job scheduling.

The SLURM Reference Manual is available on the HP XC Documentation CD-ROM and from the following Web site:

http://www.llnl.gov/LCdocs/slurm/.SLURM manpages are also available online on the HP XC system.As a system resource manager, SLURM has the following key functions:

Allocate exclusive and/or non-exclusive access to resources (compute nodes) to users for some duration of time so they can perform work

Provide a framework for starting, executing, and monitoring work (normally a parallel job) on the set of allocated nodes

Arbitrate conflicting requests for resources by managing a queue of pending work

"How LSF-HPC and SLURM Interact" describes the interaction between SLURM and LSF-HPC.

SLURM Utilities

You interact with SLURM through its command line utilities. The basic utilities are listed here:

srunsqueuescancelsinfoscontrol

Refer to the SLURM Reference Manual or to the corresponding manpage for more information on any of these utilities.

Launching Jobs with the srun Command

The srun command submits and controls jobs that run under SLURM management. The srun command is used to submit interactive and batch jobs for execution, allocate resources, and initiate job steps.

The srun command handles both serial and parallel jobs.

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