NAME

sbatch - Submit a batch script to Slurm.

SYNOPSIS

sbatch [OPTIONS(0)...] [ : [OPTIONS(n)...]] script(0) [args(0)...]

Option(s) define multiple jobs in a co-scheduled heterogeneous job. For more details about heterogeneous jobs see the document
https://slurm.schedmd.com/heterogeneous_jobs.html

DESCRIPTION

sbatch submits a batch script to Slurm. The batch script may be given to sbatch through a file name on the command line, or if no file name is specified, sbatch will read in a script from standard input. The batch script may contain options preceded with "#SBATCH" before any executable commands in the script.

sbatch exits immediately after the script is successfully transferred to the Slurm controller and assigned a Slurm job ID. The batch script is not necessarily granted resources immediately, it may sit in the queue of pending jobs for some time before its required resources become available.

By default both standard output and standard error are directed to a file of the name "slurm-%j.out", where the "%j" is replaced with the job allocation number. The file will be generated on the first node of the job allocation. Other than the batch script itself, Slurm does no movement of user files.

When the job allocation is finally granted for the batch script, Slurm runs a single copy of the batch script on the first node in the set of allocated nodes.

The following document describes the influence of various options on the allocation of cpus to jobs and tasks.
https://slurm.schedmd.com/cpu_management.html

RETURN VALUE

sbatch will return 0 on success or error code on failure.

OPTIONS

-a, --array=<indexes>

Submit a job array, multiple jobs to be executed with identical parameters. The indexes specification identifies what array index values should be used. Multiple values may be specified using a comma separated list and/or a range of values with a "-" separator. For example, "--array=0-15" or "--array=0,6,16-32". A step function can also be specified with a suffix containing a colon and number. For example, "--array=0-15:4" is equivalent to "--array=0,4,8,12". A maximum number of simultaneously running tasks from the job array may be specified using a "%" separator. For example "--array=0-15%4" will limit the number of simultaneously running tasks from this job array to 4. The minimum index value is 0. the maximum value is one less than the configuration parameter MaxArraySize. NOTE: currently, federated job arrays only run on the local cluster.

-A, --account=<account>

Charge resources used by this job to specified account. The account is an arbitrary string. The account name may be changed after job submission using the scontrol command.

--acctg-freq

Define the job accounting and profiling sampling intervals. This can be used to override the JobAcctGatherFrequency parameter in Slurm's configuration file, slurm.conf. The supported format is as follows:

The default value for the task sampling interval is 30 seconds. The default value for all other intervals is 0. An interval of 0 disables sampling of the specified type. If the task sampling interval is 0, accounting information is collected only at job termination (reducing Slurm interference with the job).
Smaller (non-zero) values have a greater impact upon job performance, but a value of 30 seconds is not likely to be noticeable for applications having less than 10,000 tasks.

-B --extra-node-info=<sockets[:cores[:threads]]>

Restrict node selection to nodes with at least the specified number of sockets, cores per socket and/or threads per core. NOTE: These options do not specify the resource allocation size. Each value specified is considered a minimum. An asterisk (*) can be used as a placeholder indicating that all available resources of that type are to be utilized. Values can also be specified as min-max. The individual levels can also be specified in separate options if desired:

    --sockets-per-node=<sockets>


    --cores-per-socket=<cores>


    --threads-per-core=<threads>

If task/affinity plugin is enabled, then specifying an allocation in this manner also results in subsequently launched tasks being bound to threads if the -B option specifies a thread count, otherwise an option of cores if a core count is specified, otherwise an option of sockets. If SelectType is configured to select/cons_res, it must have a parameter of CR_Core, CR_Core_Memory, CR_Socket, or CR_Socket_Memory for this option to be honored. If not specified, the scontrol show job will display 'ReqS:C:T=*:*:*'. This option applies to job allocations.

--batch=<list>

Nodes can have features assigned to them by the Slurm administrator. Users can specify which of these features are required by their batch script using this options. For example a job's allocation may include both Intel Haswell and KNL nodes with features "haswell" and "knl" respectively. On such a configuration the batch script would normally benefit by executing on a faster Haswell node. This would be specified using the option "--batch=haswell". The specification can include AND and OR operators using the ampersand and vertical bar separators. For example: "--batch=haswell|broadwell" or "--batch=haswell|big_memory". The --batch argument must be a subset of the job's --constraint=<list> argument (i.e. the job can not request only KNL nodes, but require the script to execute on a Haswell node). If the request can not be satisfied from the resources allocated to the job, the batch script will execute on the first node of the job allocation.

--bb=<spec>

Burst buffer specification. The form of the specification is system dependent. Note the burst buffer may not be accessible from a login node, but require that salloc spawn a shell on one of it's allocated compute nodes. See the description of SallocDefaultCommand in the slurm.conf man page for more information about how to spawn a remote shell.

--bbf=<file_name>

Path of file containing burst buffer specification. The form of the specification is system dependent. These burst buffer directives will be inserted into the submitted batch script.

--begin=<time>

Submit the batch script to the Slurm controller immediately, like normal, but tell the controller to defer the allocation of the job until the specified time.

Time may be of the form HH:MM:SS to run a job at a specific time of day (seconds are optional). (If that time is already past, the next day is assumed.) You may also specify midnight, noon, fika (3 PM) or teatime (4 PM) and you can have a time-of-day suffixed with AM or PM for running in the morning or the evening. You can also say what day the job will be run, by specifying a date of the form MMDDYY or MM/DD/YY YYYY-MM-DD. Combine date and time using the following format YYYY-MM-DD[THH:MM[:SS]]. You can also give times like now + count time-units, where the time-units can be seconds (default), minutes, hours, days, or weeks and you can tell Slurm to run the job today with the keyword today and to run the job tomorrow with the keyword tomorrow. The value may be changed after job submission using the scontrol command. For example:

   --begin=16:00


   --begin=now+1hour


   --begin=now+60           (seconds by default)


   --begin=2010-01-20T12:34:00

--checkpoint=<time>

Specifies the interval between creating checkpoints of the job step. By default, the job step will have no checkpoints created. Acceptable time formats include "minutes", "minutes:seconds", "hours:minutes:seconds", "days-hours", "days-hours:minutes" and "days-hours:minutes:seconds".

--checkpoint-dir=<directory>

Specifies the directory into which the job or job step's checkpoint should be written (used by the checkpoint/blcrm and checkpoint/xlch plugins only). The default value is the current working directory. Checkpoint files will be of the form "<job_id>.ckpt" for jobs and "<job_id>.<step_id>.ckpt" for job steps.

--cluster-constraint=[!]<list>

Specifies features that a federated cluster must have to have a sibling job submitted to it. Slurm will attempt to submit a sibling job to a cluster if it has at least one of the specified features. If the "!" option is included, Slurm will attempt to submit a sibling job to a cluster that has none of the specified features.

--comment=<string>

An arbitrary comment enclosed in double quotes if using spaces or some special characters.

-C, --constraint=<list>

Nodes can have features assigned to them by the Slurm administrator. Users can specify which of these features are required by their job using the constraint option. Only nodes having features matching the job constraints will be used to satisfy the request. Multiple constraints may be specified with AND, OR, matching OR, resource counts, etc. (some operators are not supported on all system types). Supported constraint options include:

--contiguous

If set, then the allocated nodes must form a contiguous set. Not honored with the topology/tree or topology/3d_torus plugins, both of which can modify the node ordering.

--cores-per-socket=<cores>

Restrict node selection to nodes with at least the specified number of cores per socket. See additional information under -B option above when task/affinity plugin is enabled.

--cpu-freq =<p1[-p2[:p3]]>

Request that job steps initiated by srun commands inside this sbatch script be run at some requested frequency if possible, on the CPUs selected for the step on the compute node(s).

p1 can be [#### | low | medium | high | highm1] which will set the frequency scaling_speed to the corresponding value, and set the frequency scaling_governor to UserSpace. See below for definition of the values.

p1 can be [Conservative | OnDemand | Performance | PowerSave] which will set the scaling_governor to the corresponding value. The governor has to be in the list set by the slurm.conf option CpuFreqGovernors.

When p2 is present, p1 will be the minimum scaling frequency and p2 will be the maximum scaling frequency.

p2 can be [#### | medium | high | highm1] p2 must be greater than p1.

p3 can be [Conservative | OnDemand | Performance | PowerSave | UserSpace] which will set the governor to the corresponding value.

If p3 is UserSpace, the frequency scaling_speed will be set by a power or energy aware scheduling strategy to a value between p1 and p2 that lets the job run within the site's power goal. The job may be delayed if p1 is higher than a frequency that allows the job to run within the goal.

If the current frequency is < min, it will be set to min. Likewise, if the current frequency is > max, it will be set to max.

Acceptable values at present include:

The following informational environment variable is set in the job step when --cpu-freq option is requested.

        SLURM_CPU_FREQ_REQ

This environment variable can also be used to supply the value for the CPU frequency request if it is set when the 'srun' command is issued. The --cpu-freq on the command line will override the environment variable value. The form on the environment variable is the same as the command line. See the ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES section for a description of the SLURM_CPU_FREQ_REQ variable.

NOTE: This parameter is treated as a request, not a requirement. If the job step's node does not support setting the CPU frequency, or the requested value is outside the bounds of the legal frequencies, an error is logged, but the job step is allowed to continue.

NOTE: Setting the frequency for just the CPUs of the job step implies that the tasks are confined to those CPUs. If task confinement (i.e., TaskPlugin=task/affinity or TaskPlugin=task/cgroup with the "ConstrainCores" option) is not configured, this parameter is ignored.

NOTE: When the step completes, the frequency and governor of each selected CPU is reset to the previous values.

NOTE: When submitting jobs with the --cpu-freq option with linuxproc as the ProctrackType can cause jobs to run too quickly before Accounting is able to poll for job information. As a result not all of accounting information will be present.

-c, --cpus-per-task=<ncpus>

Advise the Slurm controller that ensuing job steps will require ncpus number of processors per task. Without this option, the controller will just try to allocate one processor per task.

For instance, consider an application that has 4 tasks, each requiring 3 processors. If our cluster is comprised of quad-processors nodes and we simply ask for 12 processors, the controller might give us only 3 nodes. However, by using the --cpus-per-task=3 options, the controller knows that each task requires 3 processors on the same node, and the controller will grant an allocation of 4 nodes, one for each of the 4 tasks.

--deadline=<OPT>

remove the job if no ending is possible before this deadline (start > (deadline - time[-min])). Default is no deadline. Valid time formats are:
HH:MM[:SS] [AM|PM]
MMDD[YY] or MM/DD[/YY] or MM.DD[.YY]
MM/DD[/YY]-HH:MM[:SS]
YYYY-MM-DD[THH:MM[:SS]]]

--delay-boot=<minutes>

Do not reboot nodes in order to satisfied this job's feature specification if the job has been eligible to run for less than this time period. If the job has waited for less than the specified period, it will use only nodes which already have the specified features. The argument is in units of minutes. A default value may be set by a system administrator using the delay_boot option of the SchedulerParameters configuration parameter in the slurm.conf file, otherwise the default value is zero (no delay).

-d, --dependency=<dependency_list>

Defer the start of this job until the specified dependencies have been satisfied completed. <dependency_list> is of the form <type:job_id[:job_id][,type:job_id[:job_id]]> or <type:job_id[:job_id][?type:job_id[:job_id]]>. All dependencies must be satisfied if the "," separator is used. Any dependency may be satisfied if the "?" separator is used. Many jobs can share the same dependency and these jobs may even belong to different users. The value may be changed after job submission using the scontrol command. Once a job dependency fails due to the termination state of a preceding job, the dependent job will never be run, even if the preceding job is requeued and has a different termination state in a subsequent execution.

-D, --chdir=<directory>

Set the working directory of the batch script to directory before it is executed. The path can be specified as full path or relative path to the directory where the command is executed.

-e, --error=<filename pattern>

Instruct Slurm to connect the batch script's standard error directly to the file name specified in the "filename pattern". By default both standard output and standard error are directed to the same file. For job arrays, the default file name is "slurm-%A_%a.out", "%A" is replaced by the job ID and "%a" with the array index. For other jobs, the default file name is "slurm-%j.out", where the "%j" is replaced by the job ID. See the filename pattern section below for filename specification options.

--exclusive[=user|mcs]

The job allocation can not share nodes with other running jobs (or just other users with the "=user" option or with the "=mcs" option). The default shared/exclusive behavior depends on system configuration and the partition's OverSubscribe option takes precedence over the job's option.

--export=<environment variables [ALL] | NONE>

Identify which environment variables from the submission environment are propagated to the launched application. By default, all are propagated. Multiple environment variable names should be comma separated. Environment variable names may be specified to propagate the current value (e.g. "--export=EDITOR") or specific values may be exported (e.g. "--export=EDITOR=/bin/emacs"). In these two examples, the propagated environment will only contain the variable EDITOR, along with SLURM_* environment variables. However, Slurm will then implicitly attempt to load the user's environment on the node where the script is being executed, as if --get-user-env was specified. This will happen whenever NONE or environment variables are specified. If one desires to add to the submission environment instead of replacing it, have the argument include ALL (e.g. "--export=ALL,EDITOR=/bin/emacs"). Make sure ALL is specified first, since sbatch applies the environment from left to right, overwriting as necessary. Environment variables propagated from the submission environment will always overwrite environment variables found in the user environment on the node. If one desires no environment variables be propagated from the submitting machine, use the argument NONE. Regardless of this setting, the appropriate SLURM_* task environment variables are always exported to the environment. This option is particularly important for jobs that are submitted on one cluster and execute on a different cluster (e.g. with different paths).

--export-file=<filename | fd>

If a number between 3 and OPEN_MAX is specified as the argument to this option, a readable file descriptor will be assumed (STDIN and STDOUT are not supported as valid arguments). Otherwise a filename is assumed. Export environment variables defined in <filename> or read from <fd> to the job's execution environment. The content is one or more environment variable definitions of the form NAME=value, each separated by a null character. This allows the use of special characters in environment definitions.

-F, --nodefile=<node file>

Much like --nodelist, but the list is contained in a file of name node file. The node names of the list may also span multiple lines in the file. Duplicate node names in the file will be ignored. The order of the node names in the list is not important; the node names will be sorted by Slurm.

--get-user-env[=timeout][mode]

This option will tell sbatch to retrieve the login environment variables for the user specified in the --uid option. The environment variables are retrieved by running something of this sort "su - <username> -c /usr/bin/env" and parsing the output. Be aware that any environment variables already set in sbatch's environment will take precedence over any environment variables in the user's login environment. Clear any environment variables before calling sbatch that you do not want propagated to the spawned program. The optional timeout value is in seconds. Default value is 8 seconds. The optional mode value control the "su" options. With a mode value of "S", "su" is executed without the "-" option. With a mode value of "L", "su" is executed with the "-" option, replicating the login environment. If mode not specified, the mode established at Slurm build time is used. Example of use include "--get-user-env", "--get-user-env=10" "--get-user-env=10L", and "--get-user-env=S". This option was originally created for use by Moab.

--gid=<group>

If sbatch is run as root, and the --gid option is used, submit the job with group's group access permissions. group may be the group name or the numerical group ID.

--gres=<list>

Specifies a comma delimited list of generic consumable resources. The format of each entry on the list is "name[[:type]:count]". The name is that of the consumable resource. The count is the number of those resources with a default value of 1. The specified resources will be allocated to the job on each node. The available generic consumable resources is configurable by the system administrator. A list of available generic consumable resources will be printed and the command will exit if the option argument is "help". Examples of use include "--gres=gpu:2,mic:1", "--gres=gpu:kepler:2", and "--gres=help".

--gres-flags=<type>

Specify generic resource task binding options.

-H, --hold

Specify the job is to be submitted in a held state (priority of zero). A held job can now be released using scontrol to reset its priority (e.g. "scontrol release <job_id>").

-h, --help

Display help information and exit.

--hint=<type>

Bind tasks according to application hints.

--ignore-pbs

Ignore any "#PBS" options specified in the batch script.

-i, --input=<filename pattern>

Instruct Slurm to connect the batch script's standard input directly to the file name specified in the "filename pattern".

By default, "/dev/null" is open on the batch script's standard input and both standard output and standard error are directed to a file of the name "slurm-%j.out", where the "%j" is replaced with the job allocation number, as described below in the filename pattern section.

-J, --job-name=<jobname>

Specify a name for the job allocation. The specified name will appear along with the job id number when querying running jobs on the system. The default is the name of the batch script, or just "sbatch" if the script is read on sbatch's standard input.

--jobid=<jobid>

Allocate resources as the specified job id. NOTE: Only valid for users root and SlurmUser. NOTE: Not valid for federated clusters.

-k, --no-kill

Do not automatically terminate a job if one of the nodes it has been allocated fails. The user will assume the responsibilities for fault-tolerance should a node fail. When there is a node failure, any active job steps (usually MPI jobs) on that node will almost certainly suffer a fatal error, but with --no-kill, the job allocation will not be revoked so the user may launch new job steps on the remaining nodes in their allocation.

By default Slurm terminates the entire job allocation if any node fails in its range of allocated nodes.

--kill-on-invalid-dep=<yes|no>

If a job has an invalid dependency and it can never run this parameter tells Slurm to terminate it or not. A terminated job state will be JOB_CANCELLED. If this option is not specified the system wide behavior applies. By default the job stays pending with reason DependencyNeverSatisfied or if the kill_invalid_depend is specified in slurm.conf the job is terminated.

-L, --licenses=<license>

Specification of licenses (or other resources available on all nodes of the cluster) which must be allocated to this job. License names can be followed by a colon and count (the default count is one). Multiple license names should be comma separated (e.g. "--licenses=foo:4,bar"). To submit jobs using remote licenses, those served by the slurmdbd, specify the name of the server providing the licenses. For example "--license=nastran@slurmdb:12".

-M, --clusters=<string>

Clusters to issue commands to. Multiple cluster names may be comma separated. The job will be submitted to the one cluster providing the earliest expected job initiation time. The default value is the current cluster. A value of 'all' will query to run on all clusters. Note the --export option to control environment variables exported between clusters. Note that the SlurmDBD must be up for this option to work properly.

-m, --distribution=

arbitrary|<block|cyclic|plane=<options>[:block|cyclic|fcyclic]>

Specify alternate distribution methods for remote processes. In sbatch, this only sets environment variables that will be used by subsequent srun requests. This option controls the assignment of tasks to the nodes on which resources have been allocated, and the distribution of those resources to tasks for binding (task affinity). The first distribution method (before the ":") controls the distribution of resources across nodes. The optional second distribution method (after the ":") controls the distribution of resources across sockets within a node. Note that with select/cons_res, the number of cpus allocated on each socket and node may be different. Refer to https://slurm.schedmd.com/mc_support.html for more information on resource allocation, assignment of tasks to nodes, and binding of tasks to CPUs.

--mail-type=<type>

Notify user by email when certain event types occur. Valid type values are NONE, BEGIN, END, FAIL, REQUEUE, ALL (equivalent to BEGIN, END, FAIL, REQUEUE, and STAGE_OUT), STAGE_OUT (burst buffer stage out and teardown completed), TIME_LIMIT, TIME_LIMIT_90 (reached 90 percent of time limit), TIME_LIMIT_80 (reached 80 percent of time limit), TIME_LIMIT_50 (reached 50 percent of time limit) and ARRAY_TASKS (send emails for each array task). Multiple type values may be specified in a comma separated list. The user to be notified is indicated with --mail-user. Unless the ARRAY_TASKS option is specified, mail notifications on job BEGIN, END and FAIL apply to a job array as a whole rather than generating individual email messages for each task in the job array.

--mail-user=<user>

User to receive email notification of state changes as defined by --mail-type. The default value is the submitting user.

--mcs-label=<mcs>

Used only when the mcs/group plugin is enabled. This parameter is a group among the groups of the user. Default value is calculated by the Plugin mcs if it's enabled.

--mem=<size[units]>

Specify the real memory required per node. Default units are megabytes unless the SchedulerParameters configuration parameter includes the "default_gbytes" option for gigabytes. Different units can be specified using the suffix [K|M|G|T]. Default value is DefMemPerNode and the maximum value is MaxMemPerNode. If configured, both parameters can be seen using the scontrol show config command. This parameter would generally be used if whole nodes are allocated to jobs (SelectType=select/linear). Also see --mem-per-cpu. --mem and --mem-per-cpu are mutually exclusive.

NOTE: A memory size specification of zero is treated as a special case and grants the job access to all of the memory on each node. If the job is allocated multiple nodes in a heterogeneous cluster, the memory limit on each node will be that of the node in the allocation with the smallest memory size (same limit will apply to every node in the job's allocation).

NOTE: Enforcement of memory limits currently relies upon the task/cgroup plugin or enabling of accounting, which samples memory use on a periodic basis (data need not be stored, just collected). In both cases memory use is based upon the job's Resident Set Size (RSS). A task may exceed the memory limit until the next periodic accounting sample.

--mem-per-cpu=<size[units]>

Minimum memory required per allocated CPU. Default units are megabytes unless the SchedulerParameters configuration parameter includes the "default_gbytes" option for gigabytes. Default value is DefMemPerCPU and the maximum value is MaxMemPerCPU (see exception below). If configured, both parameters can be seen using the scontrol show config command. Note that if the job's --mem-per-cpu value exceeds the configured MaxMemPerCPU, then the user's limit will be treated as a memory limit per task; --mem-per-cpu will be reduced to a value no larger than MaxMemPerCPU; --cpus-per-task will be set and the value of --cpus-per-task multiplied by the new --mem-per-cpu value will equal the original --mem-per-cpu value specified by the user. This parameter would generally be used if individual processors are allocated to jobs (SelectType=select/cons_res). If resources are allocated by the core, socket or whole nodes; the number of CPUs allocated to a job may be higher than the task count and the value of --mem-per-cpu should be adjusted accordingly. Also see --mem. --mem and --mem-per-cpu are mutually exclusive.

--mem-bind=[{quiet,verbose},]type

Bind tasks to memory. Used only when the task/affinity plugin is enabled and the NUMA memory functions are available. Note that the resolution of CPU and memory binding may differ on some architectures. For example, CPU binding may be performed at the level of the cores within a processor while memory binding will be performed at the level of nodes, where the definition of "nodes" may differ from system to system. By default no memory binding is performed; any task using any CPU can use any memory. This option is typically used to ensure that each task is bound to the memory closest to it's assigned CPU. The use of any type other than "none" or "local" is not recommended. If you want greater control, try running a simple test code with the options "--cpu-bind=verbose,none --mem-bind=verbose,none" to determine the specific configuration.

NOTE: To have Slurm always report on the selected memory binding for all commands executed in a shell, you can enable verbose mode by setting the SLURM_MEM_BIND environment variable value to "verbose".

The following informational environment variables are set when --mem-bind is in use:

	SLURM_MEM_BIND_LIST
	SLURM_MEM_BIND_PREFER
	SLURM_MEM_BIND_SORT
	SLURM_MEM_BIND_TYPE
	SLURM_MEM_BIND_VERBOSE

See the ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES section for a more detailed description of the individual SLURM_MEM_BIND* variables.

Supported options include:

--mincpus=<n>

Specify a minimum number of logical cpus/processors per node.

-N, --nodes=<minnodes[-maxnodes]>

Request that a minimum of minnodes nodes be allocated to this job. A maximum node count may also be specified with maxnodes. If only one number is specified, this is used as both the minimum and maximum node count. The partition's node limits supersede those of the job. If a job's node limits are outside of the range permitted for its associated partition, the job will be left in a PENDING state. This permits possible execution at a later time, when the partition limit is changed. If a job node limit exceeds the number of nodes configured in the partition, the job will be rejected. Note that the environment variable SLURM_JOB_NODES will be set to the count of nodes actually allocated to the job. See the ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES section for more information. If -N is not specified, the default behavior is to allocate enough nodes to satisfy the requirements of the -n and -c options. The job will be allocated as many nodes as possible within the range specified and without delaying the initiation of the job. The node count specification may include a numeric value followed by a suffix of "k" (multiplies numeric value by 1,024) or "m" (multiplies numeric value by 1,048,576).

-n, --ntasks=<number>

sbatch does not launch tasks, it requests an allocation of resources and submits a batch script. This option advises the Slurm controller that job steps run within the allocation will launch a maximum of number tasks and to provide for sufficient resources. The default is one task per node, but note that the --cpus-per-task option will change this default.

--network=<type>

Specify information pertaining to the switch or network. The interpretation of type is system dependent. This option is supported when running Slurm on a Cray natively. It is used to request using Network Performance Counters. Only one value per request is valid. All options are case in-sensitive. In this configuration supported values include:

In all cases the job allocation request must specify the --exclusive option. Otherwise the request will be denied.

Also with any of these options steps are not allowed to share blades, so resources would remain idle inside an allocation if the step running on a blade does not take up all the nodes on the blade.

The network option is also supported on systems with IBM's Parallel Environment (PE). See IBM's LoadLeveler job command keyword documentation about the keyword "network" for more information. Multiple values may be specified in a comma separated list. All options are case in-sensitive. Supported values include:

--nice[=adjustment]

Run the job with an adjusted scheduling priority within Slurm. With no adjustment value the scheduling priority is decreased by 100. A negative nice value increases the priority, otherwise decreases it. The adjustment range is +/- 2147483645. Only privileged users can specify a negative adjustment.

--no-requeue

Specifies that the batch job should never be requeued under any circumstances. Setting this option will prevent system administrators from being able to restart the job (for example, after a scheduled downtime), recover from a node failure, or be requeued upon preemption by a higher priority job. When a job is requeued, the batch script is initiated from its beginning. Also see the --requeue option. The JobRequeue configuration parameter controls the default behavior on the cluster.

--ntasks-per-core=<ntasks>

Request the maximum ntasks be invoked on each core. Meant to be used with the --ntasks option. Related to --ntasks-per-node except at the core level instead of the node level. NOTE: This option is not supported unless SelectType=cons_res is configured (either directly or indirectly on Cray systems) along with the node's core count.

--ntasks-per-node=<ntasks>

Request that ntasks be invoked on each node. If used with the --ntasks option, the --ntasks option will take precedence and the --ntasks-per-node will be treated as a maximum count of tasks per node. Meant to be used with the --nodes option. This is related to --cpus-per-task=ncpus, but does not require knowledge of the actual number of cpus on each node. In some cases, it is more convenient to be able to request that no more than a specific number of tasks be invoked on each node. Examples of this include submitting a hybrid MPI/OpenMP app where only one MPI "task/rank" should be assigned to each node while allowing the OpenMP portion to utilize all of the parallelism present in the node, or submitting a single setup/cleanup/monitoring job to each node of a pre-existing allocation as one step in a larger job script.

--ntasks-per-socket=<ntasks>

Request the maximum ntasks be invoked on each socket. Meant to be used with the --ntasks option. Related to --ntasks-per-node except at the socket level instead of the node level. NOTE: This option is not supported unless SelectType=cons_res is configured (either directly or indirectly on Cray systems) along with the node's socket count.

-O, --overcommit

Overcommit resources. When applied to job allocation, only one CPU is allocated to the job per node and options used to specify the number of tasks per node, socket, core, etc. are ignored. When applied to job step allocations (the srun command when executed within an existing job allocation), this option can be used to launch more than one task per CPU. Normally, srun will not allocate more than one process per CPU. By specifying --overcommit you are explicitly allowing more than one process per CPU. However no more than MAX_TASKS_PER_NODE tasks are permitted to execute per node. NOTE: MAX_TASKS_PER_NODE is defined in the file slurm.h and is not a variable, it is set at Slurm build time.

-o, --output=<filename pattern>

Instruct Slurm to connect the batch script's standard output directly to the file name specified in the "filename pattern". By default both standard output and standard error are directed to the same file. For job arrays, the default file name is "slurm-%A_%a.out", "%A" is replaced by the job ID and "%a" with the array index. For other jobs, the default file name is "slurm-%j.out", where the "%j" is replaced by the job ID. See the filename pattern section below for filename specification options.

--open-mode=append|truncate

Open the output and error files using append or truncate mode as specified. The default value is specified by the system configuration parameter JobFileAppend.

--parsable

Outputs only the job id number and the cluster name if present. The values are separated by a semicolon. Errors will still be displayed.

-p, --partition=<partition_names>

Request a specific partition for the resource allocation. If not specified, the default behavior is to allow the slurm controller to select the default partition as designated by the system administrator. If the job can use more than one partition, specify their names in a comma separate list and the one offering earliest initiation will be used with no regard given to the partition name ordering (although higher priority partitions will be considered first). When the job is initiated, the name of the partition used will be placed first in the job record partition string.

--power=<flags>

Comma separated list of power management plugin options. Currently available flags include: level (all nodes allocated to the job should have identical power caps, may be disabled by the Slurm configuration option PowerParameters=job_no_level).

--priority=<value>

Request a specific job priority. May be subject to configuration specific constraints. value should either be a numeric value or "TOP" (for highest possible value). Only Slurm operators and administrators can set the priority of a job.

--profile=<all|none|[energy[,|task[,|lustre[,|network]]]]>

enables detailed data collection by the acct_gather_profile plugin. Detailed data are typically time-series that are stored in an HDF5 file for the job or an InfluxDB database depending on the configured plugin.

--propagate[=rlimit[,rlimit...]]

Allows users to specify which of the modifiable (soft) resource limits to propagate to the compute nodes and apply to their jobs. If no rlimit is specified, then all resource limits will be propagated. The following rlimit names are supported by Slurm (although some options may not be supported on some systems):

-q, --qos=<qos>

Request a quality of service for the job. QOS values can be defined for each user/cluster/account association in the Slurm database. Users will be limited to their association's defined set of qos's when the Slurm configuration parameter, AccountingStorageEnforce, includes "qos" in it's definition.

-Q, --quiet

Suppress informational messages from sbatch. Errors will still be displayed.

--reboot

Force the allocated nodes to reboot before starting the job. This is only supported with some system configurations and will otherwise be silently ignored.

--requeue

Specifies that the batch job should eligible to being requeue. The job may be requeued explicitly by a system administrator, after node failure, or upon preemption by a higher priority job. When a job is requeued, the batch script is initiated from its beginning. Also see the --no-requeue option. The JobRequeue configuration parameter controls the default behavior on the cluster.

--reservation=<name>

Allocate resources for the job from the named reservation.

--share The --share option has been replaced by the --oversubscribe option described below.

-s, --oversubscribe

The job allocation can over-subscribe resources with other running jobs. The resources to be over-subscribed can be nodes, sockets, cores, and/or hyperthreads depending upon configuration. The default over-subscribe behavior depends on system configuration and the partition's OverSubscribe option takes precedence over the job's option. This option may result in the allocation being granted sooner than if the --oversubscribe option was not set and allow higher system utilization, but application performance will likely suffer due to competition for resources. Also see the --exclusive option.

-S, --core-spec=<num>

Count of specialized cores per node reserved by the job for system operations and not used by the application. The application will not use these cores, but will be charged for their allocation. Default value is dependent upon the node's configured CoreSpecCount value. If a value of zero is designated and the Slurm configuration option AllowSpecResourcesUsage is enabled, the job will be allowed to override CoreSpecCount and use the specialized resources on nodes it is allocated. This option can not be used with the --thread-spec option.

--signal=[B:]<sig_num>[@<sig_time>]

When a job is within sig_time seconds of its end time, send it the signal sig_num. Due to the resolution of event handling by Slurm, the signal may be sent up to 60 seconds earlier than specified. sig_num may either be a signal number or name (e.g. "10" or "USR1"). sig_time must have an integer value between 0 and 65535. By default, no signal is sent before the job's end time. If a sig_num is specified without any sig_time, the default time will be 60 seconds. Use the "B:" option to signal only the batch shell, none of the other processes will be signaled. By default all job steps will be signaled, but not the batch shell itself.

--sockets-per-node=<sockets>

Restrict node selection to nodes with at least the specified number of sockets. See additional information under -B option above when task/affinity plugin is enabled.

--spread-job

Spread the job allocation over as many nodes as possible and attempt to evenly distribute tasks across the allocated nodes. This option disables the topology/tree plugin.

--switches=<count>[@<max-time>]

When a tree topology is used, this defines the maximum count of switches desired for the job allocation and optionally the maximum time to wait for that number of switches. If Slurm finds an allocation containing more switches than the count specified, the job remains pending until it either finds an allocation with desired switch count or the time limit expires. It there is no switch count limit, there is no delay in starting the job. Acceptable time formats include "minutes", "minutes:seconds", "hours:minutes:seconds", "days-hours", "days-hours:minutes" and "days-hours:minutes:seconds". The job's maximum time delay may be limited by the system administrator using the SchedulerParameters configuration parameter with the max_switch_wait parameter option. On a dragonfly network the only switch count supported is 1 since communication performance will be highest when a job is allocate resources on one leaf switch or more than 2 leaf switches. The default max-time is the max_switch_wait SchedulerParameters.

-t, --time=<time>

Set a limit on the total run time of the job allocation. If the requested time limit exceeds the partition's time limit, the job will be left in a PENDING state (possibly indefinitely). The default time limit is the partition's default time limit. When the time limit is reached, each task in each job step is sent SIGTERM followed by SIGKILL. The interval between signals is specified by the Slurm configuration parameter KillWait. The OverTimeLimit configuration parameter may permit the job to run longer than scheduled. Time resolution is one minute and second values are rounded up to the next minute.

A time limit of zero requests that no time limit be imposed. Acceptable time formats include "minutes", "minutes:seconds", "hours:minutes:seconds", "days-hours", "days-hours:minutes" and "days-hours:minutes:seconds".

--tasks-per-node=<n>

Specify the number of tasks to be launched per node. Equivalent to --ntasks-per-node.

--test-only

Validate the batch script and return an estimate of when a job would be scheduled to run given the current job queue and all the other arguments specifying the job requirements. No job is actually submitted.

--thread-spec=<num>

Count of specialized threads per node reserved by the job for system operations and not used by the application. The application will not use these threads, but will be charged for their allocation. This option can not be used with the --core-spec option.

--threads-per-core=<threads>

Restrict node selection to nodes with at least the specified number of threads per core. NOTE: "Threads" refers to the number of processing units on each core rather than the number of application tasks to be launched per core. See additional information under -B option above when task/affinity plugin is enabled.

--time-min=<time>

Set a minimum time limit on the job allocation. If specified, the job may have it's --time limit lowered to a value no lower than --time-min if doing so permits the job to begin execution earlier than otherwise possible. The job's time limit will not be changed after the job is allocated resources. This is performed by a backfill scheduling algorithm to allocate resources otherwise reserved for higher priority jobs. Acceptable time formats include "minutes", "minutes:seconds", "hours:minutes:seconds", "days-hours", "days-hours:minutes" and "days-hours:minutes:seconds".

--tmp=<size[units]>

Specify a minimum amount of temporary disk space per node. Default units are megabytes unless the SchedulerParameters configuration parameter includes the "default_gbytes" option for gigabytes. Different units can be specified using the suffix [K|M|G|T].

-u, --usage

Display brief help message and exit.

--uid=<user>

Attempt to submit and/or run a job as user instead of the invoking user id. The invoking user's credentials will be used to check access permissions for the target partition. User root may use this option to run jobs as a normal user in a RootOnly partition for example. If run as root, sbatch will drop its permissions to the uid specified after node allocation is successful. user may be the user name or numerical user ID.

--use-min-nodes

If a range of node counts is given, prefer the smaller count.

-V, --version

Display version information and exit.

-v, --verbose

Increase the verbosity of sbatch's informational messages. Multiple -v's will further increase sbatch's verbosity. By default only errors will be displayed.

-w, --nodelist=<node name list>

Request a specific list of hosts. The job will contain all of these hosts and possibly additional hosts as needed to satisfy resource requirements. The list may be specified as a comma-separated list of hosts, a range of hosts (host[1-5,7,...] for example), or a filename. The host list will be assumed to be a filename if it contains a "/" character. If you specify a minimum node or processor count larger than can be satisfied by the supplied host list, additional resources will be allocated on other nodes as needed. Duplicate node names in the list will be ignored. The order of the node names in the list is not important; the node names will be sorted by Slurm.

-W, --wait

Do not exit until the submitted job terminates. The exit code of the sbatch command will be the same as the exit code of the submitted job. If the job terminated due to a signal rather than a normal exit, the exit code will be set to 1. In the case of a job array, the exit code recorded will be the highest value for any task in the job array.

--wait-all-nodes=<value>

Controls when the execution of the command begins. By default the job will begin execution as soon as the allocation is made.

--wckey=<wckey>

Specify wckey to be used with job. If TrackWCKey=no (default) in the slurm.conf this value is ignored.

--wrap=<command string>

Sbatch will wrap the specified command string in a simple "sh" shell script, and submit that script to the slurm controller. When --wrap is used, a script name and arguments may not be specified on the command line; instead the sbatch-generated wrapper script is used.

-x, --exclude=<node name list>

Explicitly exclude certain nodes from the resources granted to the job.

--x11[=<all|batch|first|last>]

Sets up X11 forwarding on all, batch host, first or last node(s) of the allocation. This option is only enabled if Slurm was compiled with X11 support and PrologFlags=x11 is defined in the slurm.conf. Default is batch.

filename pattern

sbatch allows for a filename pattern to contain one or more replacement symbols, which are a percent sign "%" followed by a letter (e.g. %j).

\\

Do not process any of the replacement symbols.

%%

The character "%".

%A

Job array's master job allocation number.

%a

Job array ID (index) number.

%J

jobid.stepid of the running job. (e.g. "128.0")

%j

jobid of the running job.

%N

short hostname. This will create a separate IO file per node.

%n

Node identifier relative to current job (e.g. "0" is the first node of the running job) This will create a separate IO file per node.

%s

stepid of the running job.

%t

task identifier (rank) relative to current job. This will create a separate IO file per task.

%u

User name.

%x

Job name.

A number placed between the percent character and format specifier may be used to zero-pad the result in the IO filename. This number is ignored if the format specifier corresponds to non-numeric data (%N for example).

Some examples of how the format string may be used for a 4 task job step with a Job ID of 128 and step id of 0 are included below:

job%J.out

job128.0.out

job%4j.out

job0128.out

job%j-%2t.out

job128-00.out, job128-01.out, ...

INPUT ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES

Upon startup, sbatch will read and handle the options set in the following environment variables. Note that environment variables will override any options set in a batch script, and command line options will override any environment variables.

SBATCH_ACCOUNT

Same as -A, --account

SBATCH_ACCTG_FREQ

Same as --acctg-freq

SBATCH_ARRAY_INX

Same as -a, --array

SBATCH_BATCH

Same as --batch

SBATCH_CHECKPOINT

Same as --checkpoint

SBATCH_CHECKPOINT_DIR

Same as --checkpoint-dir

SBATCH_CLUSTERS or SLURM_CLUSTERS

Same as --clusters

SBATCH_CONSTRAINT

Same as -C, --constraint

SBATCH_CORE_SPEC

Same as --core-spec

SBATCH_DEBUG

Same as -v, --verbose

SBATCH_DELAY_BOOT

Same as --delay-boot

SBATCH_DISTRIBUTION

Same as -m, --distribution

SBATCH_EXCLUSIVE

Same as --exclusive

SBATCH_EXPORT

Same as --export

SBATCH_GET_USER_ENV

Same as --get-user-env

SBATCH_GRES_FLAGS

Same as --gres-flags

SBATCH_HINT or SLURM_HINT

Same as --hint

SBATCH_IGNORE_PBS

Same as --ignore-pbs

SBATCH_JOBID

Same as --jobid

SBATCH_JOB_NAME

Same as -J, --job-name

SBATCH_MEM_BIND

Same as --mem-bind

SBATCH_NETWORK

Same as --network

SBATCH_NO_REQUEUE

Same as --no-requeue

SBATCH_OPEN_MODE

Same as --open-mode

SBATCH_OVERCOMMIT

Same as -O, --overcommit

SBATCH_PARTITION

Same as -p, --partition

SBATCH_POWER

Same as --power

SBATCH_PROFILE

Same as --profile

SBATCH_QOS

Same as --qos

SBATCH_RESERVATION

Same as --reservation

SBATCH_REQ_SWITCH

When a tree topology is used, this defines the maximum count of switches desired for the job allocation and optionally the maximum time to wait for that number of switches. See --switches

SBATCH_REQUEUE

Same as --requeue

SBATCH_SIGNAL

Same as --signal

SBATCH_SPREAD_JOB

Same as --spread-job

SBATCH_THREAD_SPEC

Same as --thread-spec

SBATCH_TIMELIMIT

Same as -t, --time

SBATCH_USE_MIN_NODES

Same as --use-min-nodes

SBATCH_WAIT

Same as -W, --wait

SBATCH_WAIT_ALL_NODES

Same as --wait-all-nodes

SBATCH_WAIT4SWITCH

Max time waiting for requested switches. See --switches

SBATCH_WCKEY

Same as --wckey

SLURM_CONF

The location of the Slurm configuration file.

SLURM_EXIT_ERROR

Specifies the exit code generated when a Slurm error occurs (e.g. invalid options). This can be used by a script to distinguish application exit codes from various Slurm error conditions.

SLURM_STEP_KILLED_MSG_NODE_ID=ID

If set, only the specified node will log when the job or step are killed by a signal.

OUTPUT ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES

The Slurm controller will set the following variables in the environment of the batch script.

BASIL_RESERVATION_ID

The reservation ID on Cray systems running ALPS/BASIL only.

SBATCH_MEM_BIND

Set to value of the --mem-bind option.

SBATCH_MEM_BIND_LIST

Set to bit mask used for memory binding.

SBATCH_MEM_BIND_PREFER

Set to "prefer" if the --mem-bind option includes the prefer option.

SBATCH_MEM_BIND_TYPE

Set to the memory binding type specified with the --mem-bind option. Possible values are "none", "rank", "map_map", "mask_mem" and "local".

SBATCH_MEM_BIND_VERBOSE

Set to "verbose" if the --mem-bind option includes the verbose option. Set to "quiet" otherwise.

SLURM_*_PACK_GROUP_#

For a heterogenous job allocation, the environment variables are set separately for each component.

SLURM_ARRAY_TASK_COUNT

Total number of tasks in a job array.

SLURM_ARRAY_TASK_ID

Job array ID (index) number.

SLURM_ARRAY_TASK_MAX

Job array's maximum ID (index) number.

SLURM_ARRAY_TASK_MIN

Job array's minimum ID (index) number.

SLURM_ARRAY_TASK_STEP

Job array's index step size.

SLURM_ARRAY_JOB_ID

Job array's master job ID number.

SLURM_CHECKPOINT_IMAGE_DIR

Directory into which checkpoint images should be written if specified on the execute line.

SLURM_CLUSTER_NAME

Name of the cluster on which the job is executing.

SLURM_CPUS_ON_NODE

Number of CPUS on the allocated node.

SLURM_CPUS_PER_TASK

Number of cpus requested per task. Only set if the --cpus-per-task option is specified.

SLURM_DISTRIBUTION

Same as -m, --distribution

SLURM_GTIDS

Global task IDs running on this node. Zero origin and comma separated.

SLURM_JOB_ACCOUNT

Account name associated of the job allocation.

SLURM_JOB_ID (and SLURM_JOBID for backwards compatibility)

The ID of the job allocation.

SLURM_JOB_CPUS_PER_NODE

Count of processors available to the job on this node. Note the select/linear plugin allocates entire nodes to jobs, so the value indicates the total count of CPUs on the node. The select/cons_res plugin allocates individual processors to jobs, so this number indicates the number of processors on this node allocated to the job.

SLURM_JOB_DEPENDENCY

Set to value of the --dependency option.

SLURM_JOB_NAME

Name of the job.

SLURM_JOB_NODELIST (and SLURM_NODELIST for backwards compatibility)

List of nodes allocated to the job.

SLURM_JOB_NUM_NODES (and SLURM_NNODES for backwards compatibility)

Total number of nodes in the job's resource allocation.

SLURM_JOB_PARTITION

Name of the partition in which the job is running.

SLURM_JOB_QOS

Quality Of Service (QOS) of the job allocation.

SLURM_JOB_RESERVATION

Advanced reservation containing the job allocation, if any.

SLURM_LOCALID

Node local task ID for the process within a job.

SLURM_MEM_PER_CPU

Same as --mem-per-cpu

SLURM_MEM_PER_NODE

Same as --mem

SLURM_NODE_ALIASES

Sets of node name, communication address and hostname for nodes allocated to the job from the cloud. Each element in the set if colon separated and each set is comma separated. For example: SLURM_NODE_ALIASES=ec0:1.2.3.4:foo,ec1:1.2.3.5:bar

SLURM_NODEID

ID of the nodes allocated.

SLURM_NTASKS (and SLURM_NPROCS for backwards compatibility)

Same as -n, --ntasks

SLURM_NTASKS_PER_CORE

Number of tasks requested per core. Only set if the --ntasks-per-core option is specified.

SLURM_NTASKS_PER_NODE

Number of tasks requested per node. Only set if the --ntasks-per-node option is specified.

SLURM_NTASKS_PER_SOCKET

Number of tasks requested per socket. Only set if the --ntasks-per-socket option is specified.

SLURM_PACK_SIZE

Set to count of components in heterogeneous job.

SLURM_PRIO_PROCESS

The scheduling priority (nice value) at the time of job submission. This value is propagated to the spawned processes.

SLURM_PROCID

The MPI rank (or relative process ID) of the current process

SLURM_PROFILE

Same as --profile

SLURM_RESTART_COUNT

If the job has been restarted due to system failure or has been explicitly requeued, this will be sent to the number of times the job has been restarted.

SLURM_SUBMIT_DIR

The directory from which sbatch was invoked.

SLURM_SUBMIT_HOST

The hostname of the computer from which sbatch was invoked.

SLURM_TASKS_PER_NODE

Number of tasks to be initiated on each node. Values are comma separated and in the same order as SLURM_JOB_NODELIST. If two or more consecutive nodes are to have the same task count, that count is followed by "(x#)" where "#" is the repetition count. For example, "SLURM_TASKS_PER_NODE=2(x3),1" indicates that the first three nodes will each execute three tasks and the fourth node will execute one task.

SLURM_TASK_PID

The process ID of the task being started.

SLURM_TOPOLOGY_ADDR

This is set only if the system has the topology/tree plugin configured. The value will be set to the names network switches which may be involved in the job's communications from the system's top level switch down to the leaf switch and ending with node name. A period is used to separate each hardware component name.

SLURM_TOPOLOGY_ADDR_PATTERN

This is set only if the system has the topology/tree plugin configured. The value will be set component types listed in SLURM_TOPOLOGY_ADDR. Each component will be identified as either "switch" or "node". A period is used to separate each hardware component type.

SLURMD_NODENAME

Name of the node running the job script.

EXAMPLES

Specify a batch script by filename on the command line. The batch script specifies a 1 minute time limit for the job.

$ cat myscript
#!/bin/sh
#SBATCH --time=1
srun hostname |sort

$ sbatch -N4 myscript
salloc: Granted job allocation 65537

$ cat slurm-65537.out
host1
host2
host3
host4

Pass a batch script to sbatch on standard input:

$ sbatch -N4 <<EOF
> #!/bin/sh
> srun hostname |sort
> EOF
sbatch: Submitted batch job 65541

$ cat slurm-65541.out
host1
host2
host3
host4

To create a heterogeneous job with 3 components, each allocating a unique set of nodes:

sbatch -w node[2-3] : -w node4 : -w node[5-7] work.bash
Submitted batch job 34987

COPYING

Copyright (C) 2006-2007 The Regents of the University of California. Produced at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (cf, DISCLAIMER).
Copyright (C) 2008-2010 Lawrence Livermore National Security.
Copyright (C) 2010-2017 SchedMD LLC.

This file is part of Slurm, a resource management program. For details, see <https://slurm.schedmd.com/>.

Slurm is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

Slurm is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

SEE ALSO

sinfo(1), sattach(1), salloc(1), squeue(1), scancel(1), scontrol(1), slurm.conf(5), sched_setaffinity (2), numa (3)