PBS Pro to Slurm Very Quick Reference

PBS	Slurm	Description
qsub script_file	sbatch script_file	Submit a job from script_file
qsub -I	salloc [options]	Request an interactive job
qdel 123	scancel 123	Cancel job 123
qstat -u [username]	squeue	List user's pending and running jobs
qstat -f 123 qstat -fx 123	scontrol show job 123	Show job details -x in PBS to show finished job
qstat queue_name	sinfo sinfo -s	Cluster status with partition (queue) list With '-s' a summarised partition list, which is shorter and simpler to interpret.

PBS	Slurm	Description
#QSUB	#SBATCH	Scheduler directive
-q queue_name	-p queue_name	Queue to 'queue_name'
-l select=4:ncpus=16 (request 4 nodes and request that each node has the property of 16 cpus)	-n 64	Processor count of 64
-l walltime=h:mm: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
-N job_name	--job-name=job_name	Job name
-l place=excl	--exclusive	Exclusive node usage for this job - i.e. no other jobs on same nodes
-l mem=1gb	--mem-per-cpu=128M or --mem-per-cpu=1G	Memory requirement
-l nodes=x:ppn=16	--tasks-per-node=16	Processes per node
-P proj_code	--account=proj_code	Project account to charge job to
-t 1-10	--array=array_spec	Job array declaration

PBS	Slurm	Description
$PBS_JOBID	$SLURM_JOBID	Job ID
$PBS_O_WORKDIR	$SLURM_SUBMIT_DIR	Submit directory
	$SLURM_ARRAY_JOB_ID	Job Array Parent
$PBS_ARRAYID	$SLURM_ARRAY_TASK_ID	Job Array Index
$PBS_O_HOST	$SLURM_SUBMIT_HOST	Submission Host
$PBS_NODEFILE	$SLURM_JOB_NODELIST	Allocated compute nodes
	$SLURM_NTASKS (mpirun can automatically pick this up from Slurm, it does not need to be specified)	Number of processors allocated
$PBS_QUEUE	$SLURM_JOB_PARTITION	Queue job is running in

Much more detail available in the Slurm documentation.