cluster:usage_tips:startslurm

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Slurm is a workload manager,scheduler system. It's build from computer nodes, 1 node is the Login Node, a master node and worker node's
The login node is called cheetah.sleep.ru.is 130.208.209.30.
The cluster is a linux environment, connect with SSH

Open a terminal to log-in ssh <myUser>@cheetah.sleep.ru.is

Each user has his home folder, the path is [/mount/home/<username>]

  1. The first step for users is to make sure their working environment fits their needs.
    User can install different version of Python and all necessary modules for their work.
    For those who are using Python, we recommend, for ease of use, using a Python virtual environment
  2. However user can setup and install their Python modules locally without a Python virtual environment, by using Pip3 install <Module>
  3. Each user directory has a few files an readMe.lst file and template (slurm) script file (exampleJob.sh)
    Every user needs to use a script file for instructing the cluster what to do
  4. The cluster gives users access to memory, cpu and GPU. To execute your job on the cluster, first update exampleJob.sh to run your code (or make a copy)
    Then submit your job to the queue with command sbatch exampleJob.sh


Your template script file (exampleJob.sh) looks like this
#!/bin/bash
#SBATCH --account=staff
#SBATCH --job-name=sleepJob
#SBATCH --gpus-per-node=1
#SBATCH --mem-per-cpu=2G
#SBATCH --output=Slurm.log

Useful commands

cmdDescr
sbatch <exampleJob.sh>Submit job
sacctMy jobs
squeueShow all jobs on the queue
sinfoInformation about the cluster
srunRun job interactively
scancel <id>kill job with <id>

Example of Python virtual environment

Python venv
Miniconda
Aaconda

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