Added Merlin5 running-jobs

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* ``salloc``: to obtain a Slurm job allocation (a set of nodes), execute command(s), and then release the allocation when the command is finished.
This is equivalent to interactive run.
## Running on Merlin5
The **Merlin5** cluster will be available at least until 1st of November 2019. In the meantime, users can keep submitting jobs to the old cluster
but they will need to specify a couple of extra options to their scripts.
```bash
#SBATCH --clusters=merlin5
#SBATCH --partition=merlin
```
By adding ``--clusters=merlin5`` it will send the jobs to the old Merlin5 computing nodes. Also, ``--partition=merlin`` needs to be specified in
order to use the old Merlin5 partitions: ``general`` (*default*), ``daily`` and ``hourly`` will not work when submitting to Merlin5.
## Shared nodes and exclusivity
The **Merlin6** cluster has been designed in a way that should allow running MPI/OpenMP processes as well as single core based jobs. For allowing