Introduction
The commands for Slurm are similar to the ones used in LSF. You can find a mapping of the relevant commands below.
Submitting a batch job
| LSF |
Slurm
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| bsub < jobscript.sh |
sbatch jobscript.sh
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jobscript.sh:
#!/bin/bash
#BSUB -n 4
#BSUB -W 08:00
#BSUB -R "rusage[mem=2000]"
#BSUB -J analysis1
#BSUB -o analysis1.out
#BSUB -e analysis1.err
# load modules
# run command
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jobscript.sh:
#!/bin/bash
#SBATCH -n 4
#SBATCH --time=8:00
#SBATCH --mem-per-cpu=2000
#SBATCH --job-name=analysis1
#SBATCH --output=analysis1.out
#SBATCH --error=analysis1.err
# load modules
# run command
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Interactive job
| LSF |
Slurm
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| bsub -Is [LSF options] bash |
srun --pty bash
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Monitoring a job
| LSF |
Slurm
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| bjobs [JOBID] |
squeue [-j JOBID]
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Killing a job
| LSF |
Slurm
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| bkill [JOBID] |
scancel [JOBID]
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Environment variables
| LSF |
Slurm
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| $LSB_JOBID |
$SLURM_JOB_ID
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| $LSB_SUBCWD |
$SLURM_SUBMIT_DIR
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Check resource usage of a job
| LSF |
Slurm
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| bbjobs [JOBID] |
sacct -j JOBID
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Request GPUs
| LSF |
Slurm
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| bsub -R "rusage[ngpus_excl_p=1]" |
sbatch --gpus 1 < jobscript.sh
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Request a specific model of GPU
| LSF |
Slurm
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| bsub -R "rusage[ngpus_excl_p=1]" -R "select[gpu_model0==GeForceGTX1080]" |
sbatch --gpus gtx_1080:1 < jobscript.sh
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Request GPUs with a given amount of GPU memory
| LSF |
Slurm
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| bsub -R "rusage[ngpus_excl_p=1]" -R "select[gpu_mtotal0>=10240]" |
sbatch --gpus 1 --gres gpumem:10g < jobscript.sh
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