SGE to Slurm Very Quick Reference
Commands
SGE | Slurm | Description |
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qsub script_file | sbatch script_file | Submit a job from script_file |
qdel 123 | scancel 123 | Cancel job 123 |
qstat | squeue | List user's pending and running jobs |
qhost -q | sinfo sinfo -s | Cluster status with partition (queue) list With '-s' a summarised partition list, which is shorter and simpler to interpret. |
Job Specification
SGE | Slurm | Description |
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#$ | #SBATCH | Scheduler directive |
-q queue_name | -p queue_name | Queue to 'queue_name' |
-pe 64 | -n 64 | Processor count of 64 |
-l h_rt=[ss] | -t [minutes] or -t [days-hh:mm:ss] | Max wall run time |
-o file_name | -o file_name | STDOUT output file |
-e file_name | -e file_name | STDERR output file |
-J job_name | --job-name=job_name | Job name |
-l exclusive | --exclusive | Exclusive node usage for this job - i.e. no other jobs on same nodes |
-l mem_free=128M or -l mem_free=1G | --mem-per-cpu=128M or --mem-per-cpu=1G | Memory requirement |
Set by parallel environment config | --tasks-per-node=16 | Processes per node |
-P proj_code | --account=proj_code | Project account to charge job to |
-t "[array_spec]" | --array=array_spec | Job array declaration |
Job Environment Variables
SGE | Slurm | Description |
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$JOBID | $SLURM_JOBID | Job ID |
$SGE_O_WORKDIR | $SLURM_SUBMIT_DIR | Submit directory |
$JOBID | $SLURM_ARRAY_JOB_ID | Job Array Parent |
$SGE_TASK_ID | $SLURM_ARRAY_TASK_ID | Job Array Index |
$SGE_O_HOST | $SLURM_SUBMIT_HOST | Submission Host |
cat $PE_HOSTLIST (this is a file) | $SLURM_JOB_NODELIST | Allocated compute nodes |
$NSLOTS | $SLURM_NTASKS (mpirun can automatically pick this up from Slurm, it does not need to be specified) | Number of processors allocated |
$QUEUE | $SLURM_JOB_PARTITION | Queue |
Much more detail available in the Slurm documentation.