Goal: Provide a summary of concepts and commands covered.

Slurm Command Covered

Command	Description

Command	Description
`salloc -A <project-name> -t <wall-time>` `salloc --account <project-name> --time <wall-time>`	Create an interactive session. Notice use of short and long form options. Format for: `-t/--time`: Acceptable time formats include "`minutes`", "`minutes:seconds`", "`hours:minutes:seconds`", "`days-hours`", "`days-hours:minutes`" and "`days-hours:minutes:seconds`".
`sbatch <submission-script>`	Submit a job to the cluster.
`scancel <job-id>`	Cancel a pending/running job. Variations: `scancel -u <username>`: cancel all your <username> jobs.
`squeue -u <username>`	View the status of your currently running jobs.
`sacct -u <username>`	View jobs that have finished. Use the `-S` option to define a start time. Default is 00:00:00 of the current day.
`seff <job-id>`	View the `cpu` and `memory` efficiency of a job. Only accurate is the job successfully completes. If a job fails with an Out-Of-Memory (OOM) this will not be accurate.
`sinfo`	View the status of the Slurm partitions/nodes.
`arccjobs`	Print a table showing active projects and jobs.
`pestat`	Print a node list with allocated jobs - can query individual nodes.

Summary

Looked at:

What Slurm is and the core functionality it provides.?
How to start an interactive sessions using salloc, and perform job submission using sbatch.
How to select appropriate resource allocations.
How to monitor your jobs using squeue and sacct.
What does a general workflow look like. Suggesting using a small/short interactive session to test and debug, then submitting large/long jobs.
Best practices in using HPC. Suggesting not to perform computation on the login nodes and being mindful of the resources you actually require and request.
How to be a good cluster citizen with respect to general cluster use and other users.

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