Queuing-System (SLURM) and Jobfiles

Important info:

Big parts of this script was taken from the documentation of the Hamburg HPC Competence Center (HHCC). Please visit their website for more details on the Use of the Command Line Interface or about Using Shell Scripts.

Description:

• You will learn to how to use Environment Modules, a widely used system for handling different software environments (basic level)
• You will learn to use the workload manager SLURM to allocate HPC resources (e.g. CPUs) and to submit a batch job (basic level)
• You will learn how a simple jobscript looks like and how to submit it (basic to intermediate level)

General Information

Environment Modules are a tool for managing environment variables of the shell. Modules can be loaded and unloaded dynamically and atomically, in an clean fashion. Details can be found on the official website.

The workload manager used on the Phoenix-Cluster is SLURM (Simple Linux Utility for Resource Management). SLURM a widely used open source workload managers for large and small Linux clusters which is controlled via a CLI (Command Line Interface). Details can be found in the official documentation.