Job Scheduling

Partitions are separate queues for jobs to be allocated to different subsets of the supercomputer's hardware. This is both to accommodate separate ownership of Research Computing-owned nodes and privately-owned nodes, as well as different classes of nodes with unique hardware.

📄️ Slurm Fairshare Score

Computational resources on the supercomputer are free for ASU faculty, students, and collaborators. To keep availability equitable, submitted jobs in the queue are prioritized based on recent usage via the submitting user's Fairshare score, which scales a base priority by a factor dependent on recent usage.

📄️ Transitioning interactive jobs to batch jobs

In a Slurm HPC cluster, batched jobs improve efficiency by letting the scheduler queue, prioritize, and allocate resources for optimal utilization, reducing idle time and ensuring fair sharing. Unlike interactive jobs, they run without continuous user input, making them ideal for large or long computations while maintaining predictable and policy-compliant operations.

📄️ Helpful Slurm Commands

| Command | Purpose |

📄️ Slurm SBATCH Job Scripts

SBATCH job scripts (Slurm batch job scripts) are the conventional way to do work on the supercomputer. In these scripts, you request a resource allocation and define the work to be done. They are sometimes also referred to as job scripts, submission scripts, submission files, or Slurm scripts.

📄️ Slurm Job Array Examples

Case One: Bioinformatics Essential - Bulk BLAST Query

📄️ Accessing CXFEL Nodes

1. Access Eligibility

📄️ Requesting Resources