diff --git a/pages/merlin6/merlin6-slurm/running-jobs.md b/pages/merlin6/merlin6-slurm/running-jobs.md index 43b5cfe..4bc8a9c 100644 --- a/pages/merlin6/merlin6-slurm/running-jobs.md +++ b/pages/merlin6/merlin6-slurm/running-jobs.md @@ -15,6 +15,19 @@ permalink: /merlin6/running-jobs.html * ``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