NAME

srun - Run parallel jobs

SYNOPSIS

srun [OPTIONS(0)... [executable(0) [args(0)...]]] [ : [OPTIONS(N)...]] executable(N) [args(N)...]

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

Run a parallel job on cluster managed by Slurm. If necessary, srun will first create a resource allocation in which to run the parallel job.

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

srun will return the highest exit code of all tasks run or the highest signal (with the high-order bit set in an 8-bit integer -- e.g. 128 + signal) of any task that exited with a signal.
The value 253 is reserved for out-of-memory errors.

EXECUTABLE PATH RESOLUTION

The executable is resolved in the following order:

1. If executable starts with ".", then path is constructed as: current working directory / executable
2. If executable starts with a "/", then path is considered absolute.
3. If executable can be resolved through PATH. See path_resolution(7).
4. If executable is in current working directory.

Current working directory is the calling process working directory unless the --chdir argument is passed, which will override the current working directory.

OPTIONS

--accel-bind=<options>

Control how tasks are bound to generic resources of type gpu, mic and nic. Multiple options may be specified. Supported options include:

-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. This option applies to job allocations.

--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 follows:

-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 sets a default --cpu-bind option of 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. NOTE: This option is mutually exclusive with --hint, --threads-per-core and --ntasks-per-core.

--bb=<spec>

Burst buffer specification. The form of the specification is system dependent. Also see --bbf. This option applies to job allocations.

--bbf=<file_name>

Path of file containing burst buffer specification. The form of the specification is system dependent. Also see --bb. This option applies to job allocations.

--bcast[=<dest_path>]

Copy executable file to allocated compute nodes. If a file name is specified, copy the executable to the specified destination file path. If the path specified ends with '/' it is treated as a target directory, and the destination file name will be slurm_bcast_<job_id>.<step_id>_<nodename>. If no dest_path is specified, then the current working directory is used, and the filename follows the above pattern. For example, "srun --bcast=/tmp/mine -N3 a.out" will copy the file "a.out" from your current directory to the file "/tmp/mine" on each of the three allocated compute nodes and execute that file. This option applies to step allocations.

-b, --begin=<time>

Defer initiation of this job until the specified time. It accepts times 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

--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.

--comment=<string>

An arbitrary comment. This option applies to job allocations.

--compress[=type]

Compress file before sending it to compute hosts. The optional argument specifies the data compression library to be used. Supported values are "lz4" (default) and "zlib". Some compression libraries may be unavailable on some systems. For use with the --bcast option. This option applies to step allocations.

-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.

NOTE: If SelectPlugin=cons_res this option won't be honored with the topology/tree or topology/3d_torus plugins, both of which can modify the node ordering. This option applies to job allocations.

--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. This option applies to job allocations.

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

Bind tasks to CPUs. Used only when the task/affinity or task/cgroup plugin is enabled. NOTE: To have Slurm always report on the selected CPU binding for all commands executed in a shell, you can enable verbose mode by setting the SLURM_CPU_BIND environment variable value to "verbose".

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

	SLURM_CPU_BIND_VERBOSE
	SLURM_CPU_BIND_TYPE
	SLURM_CPU_BIND_LIST

See the ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES section for a more detailed description of the individual SLURM_CPU_BIND variables. These variable are available only if the task/affinity plugin is configured.

When using --cpus-per-task to run multithreaded tasks, be aware that CPU binding is inherited from the parent of the process. This means that the multithreaded task should either specify or clear the CPU binding itself to avoid having all threads of the multithreaded task use the same mask/CPU as the parent. Alternatively, fat masks (masks which specify more than one allowed CPU) could be used for the tasks in order to provide multiple CPUs for the multithreaded tasks.

Note that a job step can be allocated different numbers of CPUs on each node or be allocated CPUs not starting at location zero. Therefore one of the options which automatically generate the task binding is recommended. Explicitly specified masks or bindings are only honored when the job step has been allocated every available CPU on the node.

Binding a task to a NUMA locality domain means to bind the task to the set of CPUs that belong to the NUMA locality domain or "NUMA node". If NUMA locality domain options are used on systems with no NUMA support, then each socket is considered a locality domain.

If the --cpu-bind option is not used, the default binding mode will depend upon Slurm's configuration and the step's resource allocation. If all allocated nodes have the same configured CpuBind mode, that will be used. Otherwise if the job's Partition has a configured CpuBind mode, that will be used. Otherwise if Slurm has a configured TaskPluginParam value, that mode will be used. Otherwise automatic binding will be performed as described below.

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

Request that the job step initiated by this srun command 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.

This option applies to job and step allocations.

--cpus-per-gpu=<ncpus>

Advise Slurm that ensuing job steps will require ncpus processors per allocated GPU. Not compatible with the --cpus-per-task option.

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

Request that ncpus be allocated per process. This may be useful if the job is multithreaded and requires more than one CPU per task for optimal performance. The default is one CPU per process. If -c is specified without -n, as many tasks will be allocated per node as possible while satisfying the -c restriction. For instance on a cluster with 8 CPUs per node, a job request for 4 nodes and 3 CPUs per task may be allocated 3 or 6 CPUs per node (1 or 2 tasks per node) depending upon resource consumption by other jobs. Such a job may be unable to execute more than a total of 4 tasks.

WARNING: There are configurations and options interpreted differently by job and job step requests which can result in inconsistencies for this option. For example srun -c2 --threads-per-core=1 prog may allocate two cores for the job, but if each of those cores contains two threads, the job allocation will include four CPUs. The job step allocation will then launch two threads per CPU for a total of two tasks.

WARNING: When srun is executed from within salloc or sbatch, there are configurations and options which can result in inconsistent allocations when -c has a value greater than -c on salloc or sbatch.

This option applies to job allocations.

--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]]]
now[+count[seconds(default)|minutes|hours|days|weeks]]

This option applies only to job allocations.

--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).

This option applies only to job allocations.

-d, --dependency=<dependency_list>

Defer the start of this job until the specified dependencies have been satisfied completed. This option does not apply to job steps (executions of srun within an existing salloc or sbatch allocation) only to job allocations. <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. Only one separator may be 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. Dependencies on remote jobs are allowed in a federation. 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. This option applies to job allocations.

-D, --chdir=<path>

Have the remote processes do a chdir to path before beginning execution. The default is to chdir to the current working directory of the srun process. The path can be specified as full path or relative path to the directory where the command is executed. This option applies to job allocations.

-e, --error=<filename pattern>

Specify how stderr is to be redirected. By default in interactive mode, srun redirects stderr to the same file as stdout, if one is specified. The --error option is provided to allow stdout and stderr to be redirected to different locations. See IO Redirection below for more options. If the specified file already exists, it will be overwritten. This option applies to job and step allocations.

-E, --preserve-env

Pass the current values of environment variables SLURM_JOB_NODES and SLURM_NTASKS through to the executable, rather than computing them from commandline parameters. This option applies to job allocations.

--exact

Allow a step access to only the resources requested for the step. By default, all non-GRES resources on each node in the step allocation will be used. Note that no other parallel step will have access to those resources unless --overlap is specified. This option applies to step allocations.

--epilog=<executable>

srun will run executable just after the job step completes. The command line arguments for executable will be the command and arguments of the job step. If executable is "none", then no srun epilog will be run. This parameter overrides the SrunEpilog parameter in slurm.conf. This parameter is completely independent from the Epilog parameter in slurm.conf. This option applies to job allocations.

--exclusive[=user|mcs]

This option applies to job and job step allocations, and has two slightly different meanings for each one. When used to initiate a job, the job allocation cannot share nodes with other running jobs (or just other users with the "=user" option or "=mcs" option). The default shared/exclusive behavior depends on system configuration and the partition's OverSubscribe option takes precedence over the job's option.

This option can also be used when initiating more than one job step within an existing resource allocation (default), where you want separate processors to be dedicated to each job step. If sufficient processors are not available to initiate the job step, it will be deferred. This can be thought of as providing a mechanism for resource management to the job within its allocation (--exact implied).

The exclusive allocation of CPUs applies to job steps by default. In order to share the resources use the --overlap option.

See EXAMPLE below.

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

Identify which environment variables from the submission environment are propagated to the launched application.

-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.

--gid=<group>

If srun 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. This option applies to job allocations.

-G, --gpus=[<type>:]<number>

Specify the total number of GPUs required for the job. An optional GPU type specification can be supplied. For example "--gpus=volta:3". Multiple options can be requested in a comma separated list, for example: "--gpus=volta:3,kepler:1". See also the --gpus-per-node, --gpus-per-socket and --gpus-per-task options.

--gpu-bind=[verbose,]<type>

Bind tasks to specific GPUs. By default every spawned task can access every GPU allocated to the job. If "verbose," is specified before <type>, then print out GPU binding information.

Supported type options:

--gpu-freq=[<type]=value>[,<type=value>][,verbose]

Request that GPUs allocated to the job are configured with specific frequency values. This option can be used to independently configure the GPU and its memory frequencies. After the job is completed, the frequencies of all affected GPUs will be reset to the highest possible values. In some cases, system power caps may override the requested values. The field type can be "memory". If type is not specified, the GPU frequency is implied. The value field can either be "low", "medium", "high", "highm1" or a numeric value in megahertz (MHz). If the specified numeric value is not possible, a value as close as possible will be used. See below for definition of the values. The verbose option causes current GPU frequency information to be logged. Examples of use include "--gpu-freq=medium,memory=high" and "--gpu-freq=450".

Supported value definitions:

--gpus-per-node=[<type>:]<number>

Specify the number of GPUs required for the job on each node included in the job's resource allocation. An optional GPU type specification can be supplied. For example "--gpus-per-node=volta:3". Multiple options can be requested in a comma separated list, for example: "--gpus-per-node=volta:3,kepler:1". See also the --gpus, --gpus-per-socket and --gpus-per-task options.

--gpus-per-socket=[<type>:]<number>

Specify the number of GPUs required for the job on each socket included in the job's resource allocation. An optional GPU type specification can be supplied. For example "--gpus-per-socket=volta:3". Multiple options can be requested in a comma separated list, for example: "--gpus-per-socket=volta:3,kepler:1". Requires job to specify a sockets per node count ( --sockets-per-node). See also the --gpus, --gpus-per-node and --gpus-per-task options. This option applies to job allocations.

--gpus-per-task=[<type>:]<number>

Specify the number of GPUs required for the job on each task to be spawned in the job's resource allocation. An optional GPU type specification can be supplied. For example "--gpus-per-task=volta:1". Multiple options can be requested in a comma separated list, for example: "--gpus-per-task=volta:3,kepler:1". See also the --gpus, --gpus-per-socket and --gpus-per-node options. This option requires an explicit task count, e.g. -n, --ntasks or "--gpus=X --gpus-per-task=Y" rather than an ambiguous range of nodes with -N, --nodes.
NOTE: This option will not have any impact on GPU binding, specifically it won't limit the number of devices set for CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES.

--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 count can have a suffix of "k" or "K" (multiple of 1024), "m" or "M" (multiple of 1024 x 1024), "g" or "G" (multiple of 1024 x 1024 x 1024), "t" or "T" (multiple of 1024 x 1024 x 1024 x 1024), "p" or "P" (multiple of 1024 x 1024 x 1024 x 1024 x 1024). 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". NOTE: This option applies to job and step allocations. By default, a job step is allocated all of the generic resources that have been allocated to the job. To change the behavior so that each job step is allocated no generic resources, explicitly set the value of --gres to specify zero counts for each generic resource OR set "--gres=none" OR set the SLURM_STEP_GRES environment variable to "none".

--gres-flags=<type>

Specify generic resource task binding options. This option applies to job allocations.

-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>"). This option applies to job allocations.

-h, --help

Display help information and exit.

--hint=<type>

Bind tasks according to application hints.
NOTE: This option cannot be used in conjunction with any of --ntasks-per-core, --threads-per-core, --cpu-bind (other than --cpu-bind=verbose) or -B. If --hint is specified as a command line argument, it will take precedence over the environment.

-I, --immediate[=<seconds>]

exit if resources are not available within the time period specified. If no argument is given (seconds defaults to 1), resources must be available immediately for the request to succeed. If defer is configured in SchedulerParameters and seconds=1 the allocation request will fail immediately; defer conflicts and takes precedence over this option. By default, --immediate is off, and the command will block until resources become available. Since this option's argument is optional, for proper parsing the single letter option must be followed immediately with the value and not include a space between them. For example "-I60" and not "-I 60". This option applies to job and step allocations.

-i, --input=<mode>

Specify how stdin is to redirected. By default, srun redirects stdin from the terminal all tasks. See IO Redirection below for more options. For OS X, the poll() function does not support stdin, so input from a terminal is not possible. This option applies to job and step allocations.

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

Specify a name for the job. The specified name will appear along with the job id number when querying running jobs on the system. The default is the supplied executable program's name. NOTE: This information may be written to the slurm_jobacct.log file. This file is space delimited so if a space is used in the jobname name it will cause problems in properly displaying the contents of the slurm_jobacct.log file when the sacct command is used. This option applies to job and step allocations.

--jobid=<jobid>

Initiate a job step under an already allocated job with job id id. Using this option will cause srun to behave exactly as if the SLURM_JOB_ID environment variable was set. This option applies to step allocations.

-K, --kill-on-bad-exit[=0|1]

Controls whether or not to terminate a step if any task exits with a non-zero exit code. If this option is not specified, the default action will be based upon the Slurm configuration parameter of KillOnBadExit. If this option is specified, it will take precedence over KillOnBadExit. An option argument of zero will not terminate the job. A non-zero argument or no argument will terminate the job. Note: This option takes precedence over the -W, --wait option to terminate the job immediately if a task exits with a non-zero exit code. Since this option's argument is optional, for proper parsing the single letter option must be followed immediately with the value and not include a space between them. For example "-K1" and not "-K 1".

-k, --no-kill [=off]

Do not automatically terminate a job if one of the nodes it has been allocated fails. This option applies to job and step allocations. The job will assume all responsibilities for fault-tolerance. Tasks launch using this option will not be considered terminated (e.g. -K, --kill-on-bad-exit and -W, --wait options will have no effect upon the job step). The active job step (MPI job) will likely suffer a fatal error, but subsequent job steps may be run if this option is specified.

Specify an optional argument of "off" disable the effect of the SLURM_NO_KILL environment variable.

The default action is to terminate the job upon node failure.

-l, --label

Prepend task number to lines of stdout/err. The --label option will prepend lines of output with the remote task id. This option applies to step allocations.

-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"). This option applies to job allocations.

-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. This option applies only to job allocations. Note that the SlurmDBD must be up for this option to work properly.

-m, --distribution=

*|block|cyclic|arbitrary|plane=<options> [:*|block|cyclic|fcyclic[:*|block| cyclic|fcyclic]][,Pack|NoPack]

Specify alternate distribution methods for remote processes. This option controls the distribution 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 first ":") controls the distribution of tasks to nodes. The second distribution method (after the first ":") controls the distribution of allocated CPUs across sockets for binding to tasks. The third distribution method (after the second ":") controls the distribution of allocated CPUs across cores for binding to tasks. The second and third distributions apply only if task affinity is enabled. The third distribution is supported only if the task/cgroup plugin is configured. The default value for each distribution type is specified by *.

Note that with select/cons_res and select/cons_tres, the number of CPUs allocated to each socket and node may be different. Refer to https://slurm.schedmd.com/mc_support.html for more information on resource allocation, distribution 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, INVALID_DEPEND, REQUEUE, and STAGE_OUT), INVALID_DEPEND (dependency never satisfied), 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), and TIME_LIMIT_50 (reached 50 percent of time limit). Multiple type values may be specified in a comma separated list. The user to be notified is indicated with --mail-user. This option applies to job allocations.

--mail-user=<user>

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

--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. This option applies to job allocations.

--mem=<size[units]>

Specify the real memory required per node. Default units are megabytes. 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 of 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). Specifying a memory limit of zero for a job step will restrict the job step to the amount of memory allocated to the job, but not remove any of the job's memory allocation from being available to other job steps. Also see --mem-per-cpu and --mem-per-gpu. The --mem, --mem-per-cpu and --mem-per-gpu options are mutually exclusive. If --mem, --mem-per-cpu or --mem-per-gpu are specified as command line arguments, then they will take precedence over the environment (potentially inherited from salloc or sbatch).

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 for newly submitted jobs and all available job memory to new job steps.

Specifying new memory limits for job steps are only advisory.

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.

This option applies to job and step allocations.

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

Minimum memory required per allocated CPU. Default units are megabytes. Different units can be specified using the suffix [K|M|G|T]. The 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 core, socket, or whole nodes, then 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. Specifying a memory limit of zero for a job step will restrict the job step to the amount of memory allocated to the job, but not remove any of the job's memory allocation from being available to other job steps. Also see --mem and --mem-per-gpu. The --mem, --mem-per-cpu and --mem-per-gpu options are mutually exclusive.

NOTE: If the final amount of memory requested by a job can't be satisfied by any of the nodes configured in the partition, the job will be rejected. This could happen if --mem-per-cpu is used with the --exclusive option for a job allocation and --mem-per-cpu times the number of CPUs on a node is greater than the total memory of that node.

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

Minimum memory required per allocated GPU. Default units are megabytes. Different units can be specified using the suffix [K|M|G|T]. Default value is DefMemPerGPU and is available on both a global and per partition basis. If configured, the parameters can be seen using the scontrol show config and scontrol show partition commands. Also see --mem. The --mem, --mem-per-cpu and --mem-per-gpu options 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 its 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. This option applies to job allocations.

--msg-timeout=<seconds>

Modify the job launch message timeout. The default value is MessageTimeout in the Slurm configuration file slurm.conf. Changes to this are typically not recommended, but could be useful to diagnose problems. This option applies to job allocations.

--mpi=<mpi_type>

Identify the type of MPI to be used. May result in unique initiation procedures.

--multi-prog

Run a job with different programs and different arguments for each task. In this case, the executable program specified is actually a configuration file specifying the executable and arguments for each task. See MULTIPLE PROGRAM CONFIGURATION below for details on the configuration file contents. This option applies to step allocations.

-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_NUM_NODES (and SLURM_NNODES for backwards compatibility) 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. If the number of tasks is given and a number of requested nodes is also given, the number of nodes used from that request will be reduced to match that of the number of tasks if the number of nodes in the request is greater than the number of tasks. 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). This option applies to job and step allocations.

-n, --ntasks=<number>

Specify the number of tasks to run. Request that srun allocate resources for ntasks tasks. The default is one task per node, but note that the --cpus-per-task option will change this default. This option applies to job and step allocations.

--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 and the step cannot specify the --overlap 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.

--ntasks-per-core=<ntasks>

Request the maximum ntasks be invoked on each core. This option applies to the job allocation, but not to step allocations. Meant to be used with the --ntasks option. Related to --ntasks-per-node except at the core level instead of the node level. Masks will automatically be generated to bind the tasks to specific cores unless --cpu-bind=none is specified. 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-gpu=<ntasks>

Request that there are ntasks tasks invoked for every GPU. This option can work in two ways: 1) either specify --ntasks in addition, in which case a type-less GPU specification will be automatically determined to satisfy --ntasks-per-gpu, or 2) specify the GPUs wanted (e.g. via --gpus or --gres) without specifying --ntasks, and the total task count will be automatically determined. The number of CPUs needed will be automatically increased if necessary to allow for any calculated task count. This option will implicitly set --gpu-bind=single:<ntasks>, but that can be overridden with an explicit --gpu-bind specification. This option is not compatible with a node range (i.e. -N<minnodes-maxnodes>). This option is not compatible with --gpus-per-task, --gpus-per-socket, or --ntasks-per-node. This option is not supported unless SelectType=cons_tres is configured (either directly or indirectly on Cray systems).

--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. This option applies to job allocations.

--ntasks-per-socket=<ntasks>

Request the maximum ntasks be invoked on each socket. This option applies to the job allocation, but not to step allocations. Meant to be used with the --ntasks option. Related to --ntasks-per-node except at the socket level instead of the node level. Masks will automatically be generated to bind the tasks to specific sockets unless --cpu-bind=none is specified. 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. This option applies to job and step allocations. 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.

--overlap

Allow steps to overlap each other on the same resources. By default steps do not share resources with other parallel steps.

-o, --output=<filename pattern>

Specify the "filename pattern" for stdout redirection. By default in interactive mode, srun collects stdout from all tasks and sends this output via TCP/IP to the attached terminal. With --output stdout may be redirected to a file, to one file per task, or to /dev/null. See section IO Redirection below for the various forms of filename pattern. If the specified file already exists, it will be overwritten.

If --error is not also specified on the command line, both stdout and stderr will directed to the file specified by --output. This option applies to job and step allocations.

--open-mode=<append|truncate>

Open the output and error files using append or truncate mode as specified. For heterogeneous job steps the default value is "append". Otherwise the default value is specified by the system configuration parameter JobFileAppend. This option applies to job and step allocations.

--het-group=<expr>

Identify each component in a heterogeneous job allocation for which a step is to be created. Applies only to srun commands issued inside a salloc allocation or sbatch script. <expr> is a set of integers corresponding to one or more options offsets on the salloc or sbatch command line. Examples: "--het-group=2", "--het-group=0,4", "--het-group=1,3-5". The default value is --het-group=0.

-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. This option applies to job allocations.

--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). This option applies to job allocations.

--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. This option applies to job allocations only.

--profile=<all|none|[energy[,|task[,|filesystem[,|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.

--prolog=<executable>

srun will run executable just before launching the job step. The command line arguments for executable will be the command and arguments of the job step. If executable is "none", then no srun prolog will be run. This parameter overrides the SrunProlog parameter in slurm.conf. This parameter is completely independent from the Prolog parameter in slurm.conf. This option applies to job allocations.

--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):

--pty

Execute task zero in pseudo terminal mode. Implicitly sets --unbuffered. Implicitly sets --error and --output to /dev/null for all tasks except task zero, which may cause those tasks to exit immediately (e.g. shells will typically exit immediately in that situation). This option applies to step allocations.

-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 its definition. This option applies to job allocations.

-Q, --quiet

Suppress informational messages from srun. Errors will still be displayed. This option applies to job and step allocations.

--quit-on-interrupt

Quit immediately on single SIGINT (Ctrl-C). Use of this option disables the status feature normally available when srun receives a single Ctrl-C and causes srun to instead immediately terminate the running job. This option applies to step allocations.

-r, --relative=<n>

Run a job step relative to node n of the current allocation. This option may be used to spread several job steps out among the nodes of the current job. If -r is used, the current job step will begin at node n of the allocated nodelist, where the first node is considered node 0. The -r option is not permitted with -w or -x option and will result in a fatal error when not running within a prior allocation (i.e. when SLURM_JOB_ID is not set). The default for n is 0. If the value of --nodes exceeds the number of nodes identified with the --relative option, a warning message will be printed and the --relative option will take precedence. This option applies to step allocations.

--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. Only root, SlurmUser or admins can reboot nodes. This option applies to job allocations.

--resv-ports[=count]

Reserve communication ports for this job. Users can specify the number of port they want to reserve. The parameter MpiParams=ports=12000-12999 must be specified in slurm.conf. If not specified and Slurm's OpenMPI plugin is used, then by default the number of reserved equal to the highest number of tasks on any node in the job step allocation. If the number of reserved ports is zero then no ports is reserved. Used for OpenMPI. This option applies to job and step allocations.

--reservation=<reservation_names>

Allocate resources for the job from the named reservation. If the job can use more than one reservation, specify their names in a comma separate list and the one offering earliest initiation. Each reservation will be considered in the order it was requested. All reservations will be listed in scontrol/squeue through the life of the job. In accounting the first reservation will be seen and after the job starts the reservation used will replace it.

-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. This option applies to step allocations.

-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. This option applies to job allocations.

--signal=[R:]<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. This option applies to job allocations. Use the "R:" option to allow this job to overlap with a reservation with MaxStartDelay set. To have the signal sent at preemption time see the preempt_send_user_signal SlurmctldParameter.

--slurmd-debug=<level>

Specify a debug level for slurmd(8). The level may be specified either an integer value between 0 [quiet, only errors are displayed] and 4 [verbose operation] or the SlurmdDebug tags.

The slurmd debug information is copied onto the stderr of the job. By default only errors are displayed. This option applies to job and step allocations.

--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. This option applies to job allocations.

--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. This option applies to job allocations.

--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. This option applies to job allocations.

-T, --threads=<nthreads>

Allows limiting the number of concurrent threads used to send the job request from the srun process to the slurmd processes on the allocated nodes. Default is to use one thread per allocated node up to a maximum of 60 concurrent threads. Specifying this option limits the number of concurrent threads to nthreads (less than or equal to 60). This should only be used to set a low thread count for testing on very small memory computers. This option applies to job allocations.

-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". This option applies to job and step allocations.

--task-epilog=<executable>

The slurmstepd daemon will run executable just after each task terminates. This will be executed before any TaskEpilog parameter in slurm.conf is executed. This is meant to be a very short-lived program. If it fails to terminate within a few seconds, it will be killed along with any descendant processes. This option applies to step allocations.

--task-prolog=<executable>

The slurmstepd daemon will run executable just before launching each task. This will be executed after any TaskProlog parameter in slurm.conf is executed. Besides the normal environment variables, this has SLURM_TASK_PID available to identify the process ID of the task being started. Standard output from this program of the form "export NAME=value" will be used to set environment variables for the task being spawned. This option applies to step allocations.

--test-only

Returns an estimate of when a job would be scheduled to run given the current job queue and all the other srun arguments specifying the job. This limits srun's behavior to just return information; no job is actually submitted. The program will be executed directly by the slurmd daemon. This option applies to job allocations.

--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. This option applies to job allocations.

--threads-per-core=<threads>

Restrict node selection to nodes with at least the specified number of threads per core. In task layout, use the specified maximum number of threads per core. Implies --cpu-bind=threads. 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. This option applies to job and step allocations.

--time-min=<time>

Set a minimum time limit on the job allocation. If specified, the job may have its --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". This option applies to job allocations.

--tmp=<size[units]>

Specify a minimum amount of temporary disk space per node. Default units are megabytes. Different units can be specified using the suffix [K|M|G|T]. This option applies to job allocations.

-u, --unbuffered

By default the connection between slurmstepd and the user launched application is over a pipe. The stdio output written by the application is buffered by the glibc until it is flushed or the output is set as unbuffered. See setbuf(3). If this option is specified the tasks are executed with a pseudo terminal so that the application output is unbuffered. This option applies to step allocations.

--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, srun will drop its permissions to the uid specified after node allocation is successful. user may be the user name or numerical user ID. This option applies to job and step allocations.

--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 srun's informational messages. Multiple -v's will further increase srun's verbosity. By default only errors will be displayed. This option applies to job and step allocations.

-W, --wait=<seconds>

Specify how long to wait after the first task terminates before terminating all remaining tasks. A value of 0 indicates an unlimited wait (a warning will be issued after 60 seconds). The default value is set by the WaitTime parameter in the slurm configuration file (see slurm.conf(5)). This option can be useful to ensure that a job is terminated in a timely fashion in the event that one or more tasks terminate prematurely. Note: The -K, --kill-on-bad-exit option takes precedence over -W, --wait to terminate the job immediately if a task exits with a non-zero exit code. This option applies to job allocations.

-w, --nodelist=<host1,host2,... or filename>

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. Rather than repeating a host name multiple times, an asterisk and a repetition count may be appended to a host name. For example "host1,host1" and "host1*2" are equivalent. If the number of tasks is given and a list of requested nodes is also given, the number of nodes used from that list will be reduced to match that of the number of tasks if the number of nodes in the list is greater than the number of tasks. This option applies to job and step allocations.

--wckey=<wckey>

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

-X, --disable-status

Disable the display of task status when srun receives a single SIGINT (Ctrl-C). Instead immediately forward the SIGINT to the running job. Without this option a second Ctrl-C in one second is required to forcibly terminate the job and srun will immediately exit. May also be set via the environment variable SLURM_DISABLE_STATUS. This option applies to job allocations.

-x, --exclude=<host1,host2,... or filename>

Request that a specific list of hosts not be included in the resources allocated to this job. The host list will be assumed to be a filename if it contains a "/" character. This option applies to job and step allocations.

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

Sets up X11 forwarding on all, 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 all.

-Z, --no-allocate

Run the specified tasks on a set of nodes without creating a Slurm "job" in the Slurm queue structure, bypassing the normal resource allocation step. The list of nodes must be specified with the -w, --nodelist option. This is a privileged option only available for the users "SlurmUser" and "root". This option applies to job allocations.

srun will submit the job request to the slurm job controller, then initiate all processes on the remote nodes. If the request cannot be met immediately, srun will block until the resources are free to run the job. If the -I (--immediate) option is specified srun will terminate if resources are not immediately available.

When initiating remote processes srun will propagate the current working directory, unless --chdir=<path> is specified, in which case path will become the working directory for the remote processes.

The -n, -c, and -N options control how CPUs and nodes will be allocated to the job. When specifying only the number of processes to run with -n, a default of one CPU per process is allocated. By specifying the number of CPUs required per task (-c), more than one CPU may be allocated per process. If the number of nodes is specified with -N, srun will attempt to allocate at least the number of nodes specified.

Combinations of the above three options may be used to change how processes are distributed across nodes and cpus. For instance, by specifying both the number of processes and number of nodes on which to run, the number of processes per node is implied. However, if the number of CPUs per process is more important then number of processes (-n) and the number of CPUs per process (-c) should be specified.

srun will refuse to allocate more than one process per CPU unless --overcommit (-O) is also specified.

srun will attempt to meet the above specifications "at a minimum." That is, if 16 nodes are requested for 32 processes, and some nodes do not have 2 CPUs, the allocation of nodes will be increased in order to meet the demand for CPUs. In other words, a minimum of 16 nodes are being requested. However, if 16 nodes are requested for 15 processes, srun will consider this an error, as 15 processes cannot run across 16 nodes.

IO Redirection

By default, stdout and stderr will be redirected from all tasks to the stdout and stderr of srun, and stdin will be redirected from the standard input of srun to all remote tasks. If stdin is only to be read by a subset of the spawned tasks, specifying a file to read from rather than forwarding stdin from the srun command may be preferable as it avoids moving and storing data that will never be read.

For OS X, the poll() function does not support stdin, so input from a terminal is not possible.

This behavior may be changed with the --output, --error, and --input (-o, -e, -i) options. Valid format specifications for these options are

all

stdout stderr is redirected from all tasks to srun. stdin is broadcast to all remote tasks. (This is the default behavior)

none

stdout and stderr is not received from any task. stdin is not sent to any task (stdin is closed).

taskid

stdout and/or stderr are redirected from only the task with relative id equal to taskid, where 0 <= taskid <= ntasks, where ntasks is the total number of tasks in the current job step. stdin is redirected from the stdin of srun to this same task. This file will be written on the node executing the task.

filename

srun will redirect stdout and/or stderr to the named file from all tasks. stdin will be redirected from the named file and broadcast to all tasks in the job. filename refers to a path on the host that runs srun. Depending on the cluster's file system layout, this may result in the output appearing in different places depending on whether the job is run in batch mode.

filename pattern

srun allows for a filename pattern to be used to generate the named IO file described above. The following list of format specifiers may be used in the format string to generate a filename that will be unique to a given jobid, stepid, node, or task. In each case, the appropriate number of files are opened and associated with the corresponding tasks. Note that any format string containing %t, %n, and/or %N will be written on the node executing the task rather than the node where srun executes, these format specifiers are not supported on a BGQ system.

PERFORMANCE

Executing srun sends a remote procedure call to slurmctld. If enough calls from srun or other Slurm client commands that send remote procedure calls to the slurmctld daemon come in at once, it can result in a degradation of performance of the slurmctld daemon, possibly resulting in a denial of service.

Do not run srun or other Slurm client commands that send remote procedure calls to slurmctld from loops in shell scripts or other programs. Ensure that programs limit calls to srun to the minimum necessary for the information you are trying to gather.

INPUT ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES

Some srun options may be set via environment variables. These environment variables, along with their corresponding options, are listed below. Note: Command line options will always override these settings.

PMI_FANOUT

This is used exclusively with PMI (MPICH2 and MVAPICH2) and controls the fanout of data communications. The srun command sends messages to application programs (via the PMI library) and those applications may be called upon to forward that data to up to this number of additional tasks. Higher values offload work from the srun command to the applications and likely increase the vulnerability to failures. The default value is 32.

PMI_FANOUT_OFF_HOST

This is used exclusively with PMI (MPICH2 and MVAPICH2) and controls the fanout of data communications. The srun command sends messages to application programs (via the PMI library) and those applications may be called upon to forward that data to additional tasks. By default, srun sends one message per host and one task on that host forwards the data to other tasks on that host up to PMI_FANOUT. If PMI_FANOUT_OFF_HOST is defined, the user task may be required to forward the data to tasks on other hosts. Setting PMI_FANOUT_OFF_HOST may increase performance. Since more work is performed by the PMI library loaded by the user application, failures also can be more common and more difficult to diagnose.

PMI_TIME

This is used exclusively with PMI (MPICH2 and MVAPICH2) and controls how much the communications from the tasks to the srun are spread out in time in order to avoid overwhelming the srun command with work. The default value is 500 (microseconds) per task. On relatively slow processors or systems with very large processor counts (and large PMI data sets), higher values may be required.

SLURM_CONF

The location of the Slurm configuration file.

SLURM_ACCOUNT

Same as -A, --account

SLURM_ACCTG_FREQ

Same as --acctg-freq

SLURM_BCAST

Same as --bcast

SLURM_BURST_BUFFER

Same as --bb

SLURM_CLUSTERS

Same as -M, --clusters

SLURM_COMPRESS

Same as --compress

SLURM_CONSTRAINT

Same as -C, --constraint

SLURM_CORE_SPEC

Same as --core-spec

SLURM_CPU_BIND

Same as --cpu-bind

SLURM_CPU_FREQ_REQ

Same as --cpu-freq.

SLURM_CPUS_PER_GPU

Same as --cpus-per-gpu

SLURM_CPUS_PER_TASK

Same as -c, --cpus-per-task

SLURM_DEBUG

Same as -v, --verbose

SLURM_DELAY_BOOT

Same as --delay-boot

SLURMD_DEBUG

Same as -d, --slurmd-debug

SLURM_DEPENDENCY

Same as -P, --dependency=<jobid>

SLURM_DISABLE_STATUS

Same as -X, --disable-status

SLURM_DIST_PLANESIZE

Plane distribution size. Only used if --distribution=plane, without =<size>, is set.

SLURM_DISTRIBUTION

Same as -m, --distribution

SLURM_EPILOG

Same as --epilog

SLURM_EXCLUSIVE

Same as --exclusive

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. Also see SLURM_EXIT_IMMEDIATE.

SLURM_EXIT_IMMEDIATE

Specifies the exit code generated when the --immediate option is used and resources are not currently available. This can be used by a script to distinguish application exit codes from various Slurm error conditions. Also see SLURM_EXIT_ERROR.

SLURM_EXPORT_ENV

Same as --export

SLURM_GPUS

Same as -G, --gpus

SLURM_GPU_BIND

Same as --gpu-bind

SLURM_GPU_FREQ

Same as --gpu-freq

SLURM_GPUS_PER_NODE

Same as --gpus-per-node

SLURM_GPUS_PER_TASK

Same as --gpus-per-task

SLURM_GRES_FLAGS

Same as --gres-flags

SLURM_HINT

Same as --hint

SLURM_GRES

Same as --gres. Also see SLURM_STEP_GRES

SLURM_IMMEDIATE

Same as -I, --immediate

SLURM_JOB_ID

Same as --jobid

SLURM_JOB_NAME

Same as -J, --job-name except within an existing allocation, in which case it is ignored to avoid using the batch job's name as the name of each job step.

SLURM_JOB_NODELIST

Same as -w, --nodelist=<host1,host2,... or filename>. If job has been resized, ensure that this nodelist is adjusted (or undefined) to avoid jobs steps being rejected due to down nodes.

SLURM_JOB_NUM_NODES (and SLURM_NNODES for backwards compatibility)

Same as -N, --nodes Total number of nodes in the job’s resource allocation.

SLURM_KILL_BAD_EXIT

Same as -K, --kill-on-bad-exit

SLURM_LABELIO

Same as -l, --label

SLURM_MEM_BIND

Same as --mem-bind

SLURM_MEM_PER_CPU

Same as --mem-per-cpu

SLURM_MEM_PER_GPU

Same as --mem-per-gpu

SLURM_MEM_PER_NODE

Same as --mem

SLURM_MPI_TYPE

Same as --mpi

SLURM_NETWORK

Same as --network

SLURM_NO_KILL

Same as -k, --no-kill

SLURM_NTASKS (and SLURM_NPROCS for backwards compatibility)

Same as -n, --ntasks

SLURM_NTASKS_PER_CORE

Same as --ntasks-per-core

SLURM_NTASKS_PER_GPU

Same as --ntasks-per-gpu

SLURM_NTASKS_PER_NODE

Same as --ntasks-per-node

SLURM_NTASKS_PER_SOCKET

Same as --ntasks-per-socket

SLURM_OPEN_MODE

Same as --open-mode

SLURM_OVERCOMMIT

Same as -O, --overcommit

SLURM_OVERLAP

Same as --overlap

SLURM_PARTITION

Same as -p, --partition

SLURM_PMI_KVS_NO_DUP_KEYS

If set, then PMI key-pairs will contain no duplicate keys. MPI can use this variable to inform the PMI library that it will not use duplicate keys so PMI can skip the check for duplicate keys. This is the case for MPICH2 and reduces overhead in testing for duplicates for improved performance

SLURM_POWER

Same as --power

SLURM_PROFILE

Same as --profile

SLURM_PROLOG

Same as --prolog

SLURM_QOS

Same as --qos

SLURM_REMOTE_CWD

Same as -D, --chdir=

SLURM_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

SLURM_RESERVATION

Same as --reservation

SLURM_RESV_PORTS

Same as --resv-ports

SLURM_SIGNAL

Same as --signal

SLURM_STDERRMODE

Same as -e, --error

SLURM_STDINMODE

Same as -i, --input

SLURM_SPREAD_JOB

Same as --spread-job

SLURM_SRUN_REDUCE_TASK_EXIT_MSG

if set and non-zero, successive task exit messages with the same exit code will be printed only once.

SLURM_STEP_GRES

Same as --gres (only applies to job steps, not to job allocations). Also see SLURM_GRES

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.

SLURM_STDOUTMODE

Same as -o, --output

SLURM_TASK_EPILOG

Same as --task-epilog

SLURM_TASK_PROLOG

Same as --task-prolog

SLURM_TEST_EXEC

If defined, srun will verify existence of the executable program along with user execute permission on the node where srun was called before attempting to launch it on nodes in the step.

SLURM_THREAD_SPEC

Same as --thread-spec

SLURM_THREADS

Same as -T, --threads

SLURM_THREADS_PER_CORE

Same as -T, --threads-per-core

SLURM_TIMELIMIT

Same as -t, --time

SLURM_UNBUFFEREDIO

Same as -u, --unbuffered

SLURM_USE_MIN_NODES

Same as --use-min-nodes

SLURM_WAIT

Same as -W, --wait

SLURM_WAIT4SWITCH

Max time waiting for requested switches. See --switches

SLURM_WCKEY

Same as -W, --wckey

SLURM_WHOLE

Same as --whole

SLURM_WORKING_DIR

-D, --chdir

SRUN_EXPORT_ENV

Same as --export, and will override any setting for SLURM_EXPORT_ENV.

OUTPUT ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES

srun will set some environment variables in the environment of the executing tasks on the remote compute nodes. These environment variables are:

SLURM_*_HET_GROUP_#

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

SLURM_CLUSTER_NAME

Name of the cluster on which the job is executing.

SLURM_CPU_BIND_VERBOSE

--cpu-bind verbosity (quiet,verbose).

SLURM_CPU_BIND_TYPE

--cpu-bind type (none,rank,map_cpu:,mask_cpu:).

SLURM_CPU_BIND_LIST

--cpu-bind map or mask list (list of Slurm CPU IDs or masks for this node, CPU_ID = Board_ID x threads_per_board + Socket_ID x threads_per_socket + Core_ID x threads_per_core + Thread_ID).

SLURM_CPU_FREQ_REQ

Contains the value requested for cpu frequency on the srun command as a numerical frequency in kilohertz, or a coded value for a request of low, medium,highm1 or high for the frequency. See the description of the --cpu-freq option or the SLURM_CPU_FREQ_REQ input environment variable.

SLURM_CPUS_ON_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. For the select/cons_res plugin, this number indicates the number of cores on this node allocated to the job.

SLURM_CPUS_PER_TASK

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

SLURM_DISTRIBUTION

Distribution type for the allocated jobs. Set the distribution with -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_CPUS_PER_NODE

Number of CPUS per node.

SLURM_JOB_DEPENDENCY

Set to value of the --dependency option.

SLURM_JOB_ID (and SLURM_JOBID for backwards compatibility)

Job id of the executing job.

SLURM_JOB_NAME

Set to the value of the --job-name option or the command name when srun is used to create a new job allocation. Not set when srun is used only to create a job step (i.e. within an existing job 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_LAUNCH_NODE_IPADDR

IP address of the node from which the task launch was initiated (where the srun command ran from).

SLURM_LOCALID

Node local task ID for the process within a job.

SLURM_MEM_BIND_LIST

--mem-bind map or mask list (<list of IDs or masks for this node>).

SLURM_MEM_BIND_PREFER

--mem-bind prefer (prefer).

SLURM_MEM_BIND_SORT

Sort free cache pages (run zonesort on Intel KNL nodes).

SLURM_MEM_BIND_TYPE

--mem-bind type (none,rank,map_mem:,mask_mem:).

SLURM_MEM_BIND_VERBOSE

--mem-bind verbosity (quiet,verbose).

SLURM_JOB_NODES

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

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

The relative node ID of the current node.

SLURM_JOB_NODELIST

List of nodes allocated to the job.

SLURM_NTASKS (and SLURM_NPROCS for backwards compatibility)

Total number of processes in the current job or job step.

SLURM_HET_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_SRUN_COMM_HOST

IP address of srun communication host.

SLURM_SRUN_COMM_PORT

srun communication port.

SLURM_STEP_LAUNCHER_PORT

Step launcher port.

SLURM_STEP_NODELIST

List of nodes allocated to the step.

SLURM_STEP_NUM_NODES

Number of nodes allocated to the step.

SLURM_STEP_NUM_TASKS

Number of processes in the job step or whole heterogeneous job step.

SLURM_STEP_TASKS_PER_NODE

Number of processes per node within the step.

SLURM_STEP_ID (and SLURM_STEPID for backwards compatibility)

The step ID of the current job.

SLURM_SUBMIT_DIR

The directory from which srun was invoked or, if applicable, the directory specified by the -D, --chdir option.

SLURM_SUBMIT_HOST

The hostname of the computer from which salloc was invoked.

SLURM_TASK_PID

The process ID of the task being started.

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 two tasks and the fourth node will execute one task.

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.

SLURM_UMASK

The umask in effect when the job was submitted.

SLURMD_NODENAME

Name of the node running the task. In the case of a parallel job executing on multiple compute nodes, the various tasks will have this environment variable set to different values on each compute node.

SRUN_DEBUG

Set to the logging level of the srun command. Default value is 3 (info level). The value is incremented or decremented based upon the --verbose and --quiet options.

SIGNALS AND ESCAPE SEQUENCES

Signals sent to the srun command are automatically forwarded to the tasks it is controlling with a few exceptions. The escape sequence <control-c> will report the state of all tasks associated with the srun command. If <control-c> is entered twice within one second, then the associated SIGINT signal will be sent to all tasks and a termination sequence will be entered sending SIGCONT, SIGTERM, and SIGKILL to all spawned tasks. If a third <control-c> is received, the srun program will be terminated without waiting for remote tasks to exit or their I/O to complete.

The escape sequence <control-z> is presently ignored. Our intent is for this put the srun command into a mode where various special actions may be invoked.

MPI SUPPORT

MPI use depends upon the type of MPI being used. There are three fundamentally different modes of operation used by these various MPI implementation.

1. Slurm directly launches the tasks and performs initialization of communications through the PMI2 or PMIx APIs. For example: "srun -n16 a.out".

2. Slurm creates a resource allocation for the job and then mpirun launches tasks using Slurm's infrastructure (OpenMPI).

3. Slurm creates a resource allocation for the job and then mpirun launches tasks using some mechanism other than Slurm, such as SSH or RSH. These tasks are initiated outside of Slurm's monitoring or control. Slurm's epilog should be configured to purge these tasks when the job's allocation is relinquished, or the use of pam_slurm_adopt is highly recommended.

See https://slurm.schedmd.com/mpi_guide.html for more information on use of these various MPI implementation with Slurm.

MULTIPLE PROGRAM CONFIGURATION

Comments in the configuration file must have a "#" in column one. The configuration file contains the following fields separated by white space:

Task rank

One or more task ranks to use this configuration. Multiple values may be comma separated. Ranges may be indicated with two numbers separated with a '-' with the smaller number first (e.g. "0-4" and not "4-0"). To indicate all tasks not otherwise specified, specify a rank of '*' as the last line of the file. If an attempt is made to initiate a task for which no executable program is defined, the following error message will be produced "No executable program specified for this task".

Executable

The name of the program to execute. May be fully qualified pathname if desired.

Arguments

Program arguments. The expression "%t" will be replaced with the task's number. The expression "%o" will be replaced with the task's offset within this range (e.g. a configured task rank value of "1-5" would have offset values of "0-4"). Single quotes may be used to avoid having the enclosed values interpreted. This field is optional. Any arguments for the program entered on the command line will be added to the arguments specified in the configuration file.

For example:

###################################################################
# srun multiple program configuration file
#
# srun -n8 -l --multi-prog silly.conf
###################################################################
4-6       hostname
1,7       echo  task:%t
0,2-3     echo  offset:%o
> srun -n8 -l --multi-prog silly.conf
0: offset:0
1: task:1
2: offset:1
3: offset:2
4: linux15.llnl.gov
5: linux16.llnl.gov
6: linux17.llnl.gov
7: task:7

EXAMPLES

This simple example demonstrates the execution of the command hostname in eight tasks. At least eight processors will be allocated to the job (the same as the task count) on however many nodes are required to satisfy the request. The output of each task will be proceeded with its task number. (The machine "dev" in the example below has a total of two CPUs per node)

> srun -n8 -l hostname
0: dev0
1: dev0
2: dev1
3: dev1
4: dev2
5: dev2
6: dev3
7: dev3

The srun -r option is used within a job script to run two job steps on disjoint nodes in the following example. The script is run using allocate mode instead of as a batch job in this case.

> cat test.sh
#!/bin/sh
echo $SLURM_JOB_NODELIST
srun -lN2 -r2 hostname
srun -lN2 hostname
> salloc -N4 test.sh
dev[7-10]
0: dev9
1: dev10
0: dev7
1: dev8

The following script runs two job steps in parallel within an allocated set of nodes.

> cat test.sh
#!/bin/bash
srun -lN2 -n4 -r 2 sleep 60 &
srun -lN2 -r 0 sleep 60 &
sleep 1
squeue
squeue -s
wait
> salloc -N4 test.sh


  JOBID PARTITION     NAME     USER  ST      TIME  NODES NODELIST


  65641     batch  test.sh   grondo   R      0:01      4 dev[7-10]
STEPID     PARTITION     USER      TIME NODELIST
65641.0        batch   grondo      0:01 dev[7-8]
65641.1        batch   grondo      0:01 dev[9-10]

This example demonstrates how one executes a simple MPI job. We use srun to build a list of machines (nodes) to be used by mpirun in its required format. A sample command line and the script to be executed follow.

> cat test.sh
#!/bin/sh
MACHINEFILE="nodes.$SLURM_JOB_ID"
# Generate Machinefile for mpi such that hosts are in the same
#  order as if run via srun
#
srun -l /bin/hostname | sort -n | awk '{print $2}' > $MACHINEFILE
# Run using generated Machine file:
mpirun -np $SLURM_NTASKS -machinefile $MACHINEFILE mpi-app
rm $MACHINEFILE
> salloc -N2 -n4 test.sh

This simple example demonstrates the execution of different jobs on different nodes in the same srun. You can do this for any number of nodes or any number of jobs. The executables are placed on the nodes sited by the SLURM_NODEID env var. Starting at 0 and going to the number specified on the srun commandline.

> cat test.sh
case $SLURM_NODEID in


    0) echo "I am running on "


       hostname ;;


    1) hostname


       echo "is where I am running" ;;
esac
> srun -N2 test.sh
dev0
is where I am running
I am running on
dev1

This example demonstrates use of multi-core options to control layout of tasks. We request that four sockets per node and two cores per socket be dedicated to the job.

> srun -N2 -B 4-4:2-2 a.out

This example shows a script in which Slurm is used to provide resource management for a job by executing the various job steps as processors become available for their dedicated use.

> cat my.script
#!/bin/bash
srun -n4 prog1 &
srun -n3 prog2 &
srun -n1 prog3 &
srun -n1 prog4 &
wait

This example shows how to launch an application called "server" with one task, 8 CPUs and 16 GB of memory (2 GB per CPU) plus another application called "client" with 16 tasks, 1 CPU per task (the default) and 1 GB of memory per task.

> srun -n1 -c16 --mem-per-cpu=1gb server : -n16 --mem-per-cpu=1gb client

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) 2010-2015 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

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