Introduction to Job Scheduling

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Overview

Questions

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Objectives

  • Describe briefly what a job scheduler does
  • Summarise how to query the available resources on an HPC system
  • Describe a minimal job submission script and parameters that need to be specified
  • Summarise how to submit a batch job and monitor it until completion
  • Contrast when to run programs on an HPC login node vs running them on a compute node
  • Summarise the process for requesting and using an interactive job

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