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Table 2. List of options for PBS Pro and Slurm

Option PBS Pro Slurm
Script directive #PBS#SBATCH
Job name -N [name]--job-name=[name]
Queue -q [queue]--partition=[queue]
Accounting -W group_list=[acct]--account=[acct]
Wall clock limit -l walltime=[hh:mm:ss]--time=[hh:mm:ss]
Select -l select=[chunk]--nodes=[chunk]
Node count -l nodes=[count]--nodes=[count]
CPU count-l mpiprocs=[count]
-l ppn=[count]
-l mppwidth=[count]

--ntasks-per-node=[count]

(alternatively use --ntasks

-per-node=[count]

option)

OpenMP threads -l ompthreads=[nthr]--cpus-per-task=[nthr]
Memory size-l mem=[MB]--mem=[mem][M|G|T]
--mem-per-cpu=[mem][M|G|T]
Standard output file -o [filename]--output=[filename]
Standard error file -e [filename]--error=[filename]
Combine stdout/stderr -j oe (to stdout)(this is the default behaviour if --output is used without –-error)
Copy environment -V--export=ALL (default)
Copy environment variable -v [var]--export=var
Job dependency -W depend=[state:jobid]--dependency=[state:jobid]
Event notification -m abe--mail-type=[events]
Email address -M [address]--mail-user=[address]


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languagebash
themeEmacs
titleListing 4. A simple Slurm batch script
linenumberstrue
#!/bin/bash -l
# 10 nodes, 2432 MPI processes/node, 240320 MPI processes total
#SBATCH --job-name="myjob"
#SBATCH --time=02:00:00
#SBATCH --ntasks=240320
#SBATCH --ntasks-per-node=24=32
#SBACTH --cpus-per-task=1
#SBATCH --mem=58G
#SBATCH --output=myjob.%j.o
#SBATCH --error=myjob.%j.e
#SBATCH --account=projectcode
#SBATCH --export=NONE
#======START=====
echo "The current job ID is $SLURM_JOB_ID"
echo "Running on $SLURM_JOB_NUM_NODES nodes"
echo "Using $SLURM_NTASKS_PER_NODE tasks per node"
echo "A total of $SLURM_NTASKS tasks is used"
echo "Node list:"
sacct --format=JobID,NodeList%100 -j $SLURM_JOB_ID
srun --export=ALL -uu -N $SLURM_JOB_NUM_NODES -n $SLURM_NTASKS -c $SLURM_CPUS_PER_TASK ./a.out
#=====END====



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