Equivalent commands in PBS and Slurm
Purpose | PBS | Slurm |
Submit a job | qsub jobscript | sbatch jobscript |
Delete a job | qdel job_id | scancel job_id |
Delete all jobs belonging to user | qdel `qselect -u user` | scancel -u user |
Job status | qstat -u user | squeue -u user |
Show all jobs | qstat -a | squeue |
Equivalent Environment Variables in PBS and Slurm
Purpose | PBS | Slurm |
Job ID | $PBS_JOBID | $SLURM_JOBID |
Submit directory | $PBS_O_WORKDIR | $SLURM_SUBMIT_DIR |
Allocated node list | $PBS_NODEFILE | $SLURM_JOB_NODELIST |
Job array index | $PBS_ARRAY_INDEX | $SLURM_ARRAY_TASK_ID |
Number of cores/processes | $PCPU | $SLURM_CPUS_PER_TASK |
Equivalent Job Specifications in PBS and Slurm
Purpose | PBS | Slurm |
Set a wallclock limit | qsub -l nodes=1,walltime=HH:MM:SS | sbatch -t [min] OR -t [days-hh:mm:ss] |
Standard output file | qsub -o filename | sbatch -o filename |
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1. PBS -o filename | 1. SBATCH --output filename | |
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Standard errror file | qsub -e filename | sbatch -e filename |
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1. PBS -e filename | 1. SBATCH --error filename | |
| 2. SBATCH -e filename | |
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Combine stdout/stderr | qsub -j oe | This is the default/ specify in writing |
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Location of out/err files | qsub -k oe | not needed. By default, slurm will write stdout/stderr files to the directory from which the job is submitted. |
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Export environment to allocated node | qsub -V | sbatch --export=all (default) |
Export a single variable | qsub -v np=12 | sbatch --export=np |
Email notifications | qsub -m be | END|FAIL|ALL |
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1. PBS -m be | 1. SBATCH --mail-type=ALL | |
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Job name | qsub -N jobname -l nodes=1 jobscript | sbatch --job-name=name jobscript |
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1. PBS -N JobName | 1. SBATCH --job-name=JobName | |
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Job restart | n] | sbatch --requeue OR --no-requeue |