University of Groningen https://wiki.hpc.rug.nl/ 2026-04-14T00:58:27+00:00 https://wiki.hpc.rug.nl/ https://wiki.hpc.rug.nl/_media/wiki/logo.png text/html 2020-08-26T14:49:05+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.hpc.rug.nl/habrok/job_management/cancelling_jobs?rev=1598453345&do=diff Cancelling jobs Jobs can be cancelled using the scancel command, which expects a job id as its argument: $ scancel 2782 If you have a job that starts multiple tasks/steps, it is also possible to only send a signal to one of these steps. The following command can be used to send a TERMINATE signal to step 3 of job 2782: text/html 2025-08-29T13:09:11+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.hpc.rug.nl/habrok/job_management/checking_jobs?rev=1756472951&do=diff Getting information about submitted jobs Using squeue In order to get information about the jobs running on the cluster the squeue command is available. The command shows a (long) list of jobs in the system. Here is an example of a shortened version of text/html 2025-08-22T14:12:54+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.hpc.rug.nl/habrok/job_management/checking_results?rev=1755871974&do=diff Checking results When a job has started output generated by the jobscript will be written into the job outputfiles. If you haven't changed the names of these files using the sbatch parameters --output or --errror, these files will be called slurm-<jobid>.out text/html 2026-01-14T10:15:18+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.hpc.rug.nl/habrok/job_management/partitions?rev=1768385718&do=diff Partitions and Limits The cluster is divided into several partitions. Partitions divide up the resources in the cluster based on either physical attributes of the machines or based on the job types that are allowed to run on certain resources. Cluster layout text/html 2023-03-23T15:57:24+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.hpc.rug.nl/habrok/job_management/running_jobs?rev=1679587044&do=diff Running jobs Submitting jobs In order to submit an already created job script, the command sbatch has to be used. The simplest invocation of sbatch is: sbatch jobscript This will submit the file named jobscript, containing the #SBATCH parameters and the commands to run, to the system for execution. text/html 2025-07-14T14:13:52+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.hpc.rug.nl/habrok/job_management/scheduling_system?rev=1752502432&do=diff Resource allocation: Jobs and jobscripts On the cluster users can execute sets of tasks, which are called jobs. These jobs are a combination of a set of requirements and a list of tasks that need to be run. A scheduling system will take these jobs and run them on the available resources. text/html 2023-07-11T06:51:29+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.hpc.rug.nl/habrok/job_management/start?rev=1689058289&do=diff Job Management job_management index