Rosetta

The documentation for slurm commands can be found on the official Slurm website. Of special note is the documentation of the sbatch command Below is a reference table to be used as a comparison to our previously used SGE scheduler.

User Commands	SGE	Slurm
Job submission	qsub [script_file]	sbatch [script_file]
Job deletion	qdel [job_id]	scancel [job_id]
Job status (by job)	qstat -u \* [-j job_id]	squeue [job_id]
Job status (by user)	qstat [-u user_name]	squeue -u [user_name]
Queue list	qconf -sql	squeue
Node list	qhost	sinfo -N OR scontrol show nodes
Cluster status	qhost -q	sinfo
Environment	SGE	Slurm
Script directive	#$	#SBATCH
Queue	-q [queue]	-p [queue]
Node Count	N/A	-N [min[-max]]
CPU Count	-pe [PE] [count]	-n [count]
Wall Clock Limit	-l h_rt=[seconds]	-t [min] OR -t [days-hh:mm:ss]
Standard Output File	-o [file_name]	-o [file_name] OR --output=[file name]
Standard Error File	-e [file_name]	-e [file_name] OR --error=[file name]
Combine stdout/stderr	-j yes	(use -o without -e)
Copy Environment	-V	--export=[ALL | NONE | variables]
Event Notification	-m abe	--mail-type=[events]
Email Address	-M [address]	--mail-user=[address]
Job Name	-N [name]	--job-name=[name]
Job Restart	-r [yes|no]	--requeue OR --no-requeue
Working Directory	-wd [directory]	--workdir=[dir_name]
Resource Sharing	-l exclusive	--exclusive OR--shared
Memory Size	-l mem_free=[memory][K|M|G]	--mem=[mem][M|G|T] OR --mem-per-cpu=[mem][M|G|T]
Account to charge	-A [account]	--account=[account]
Tasks Per Node	(Fixed allocation_rule in PE)	--tasks-per-node=[count]
CPUs Per Task		--cpus-per-task=[count]
Job Dependency	-hold_jid [job_id | job_name]	--depend=[state:job_id]
Job Project	-P [name]	--wckey=[name]
Quality Of Service		--qos=[name]
Job Arrays	-t [array_spec]	--array=[array_spec]
Generic Resources	-l [resource]=[value]	--gres=[resource_spec]
Licenses	-l [license]=[count]	--licenses=[license_spec]