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srun — Run a command under the Slurm workload manager. More information: <https://slurm.schedmd.com/srun.ht

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Problem

How to use the srun command: Run a command under the Slurm workload manager. More information: <https://slurm.schedmd.com/srun.html>.

Solution

srun — Run a command under the Slurm workload manager. More information: <https://slurm.schedmd.com/srun.html>.

Run a simple command interactively:

srun hostname

Run a job with 4 tasks (CPUs):

srun {{[-n|--ntasks]}} 4 {{path/to/program}}

Allocate 8 GB of memory:

srun --mem 8G {{path/to/program}}

Run a job on a specific partition:

srun {{[-p|--partition]}} gpu {{path/to/program}}

Run a job and save the output to a file:

srun {{path/to/program}} > {{path/to/output}}

Code Snippets

Run a simple command interactively

srun hostname

Run a job with 4 tasks (CPUs)

srun {{[-n|--ntasks]}} 4 {{path/to/program}}

Allocate 8 GB of memory

srun --mem 8G {{path/to/program}}

Run a job on a specific partition

srun {{[-p|--partition]}} gpu {{path/to/program}}

Run a job and save the output to a file

srun {{path/to/program}} > {{path/to/output}}

Context

tldr-pages: common/srun

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