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title: Slurm Basic Commands
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In this document some basic commands for using Slurm are showed. Advanced examples for some of these
are explained in other Merlin6 Slurm pages. You can always use ```man <command>``` pages for more
information about options and examples.

## Basic commands

Useful commands for the slurm:

```bash
sinfo            # to see the name of nodes, their occupancy, name of slurm partitions, limits (try out with "-l" option)
squeue           # to see the currently running/waiting jobs in slurm (additional "-l" option may also be useful)
sbatch Script.sh # to submit a script (example below) to the slurm.
srun <command>   # to submit a command to Slurm. Same options as in 'sbatch' can be used.
salloc           # to allocate computing nodes. Useful for running interactive jobs (ANSYS, Python Notebooks, etc.).
scancel job_id   # to cancel slurm job, job id is the numeric id, seen by the squeue
```

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## Advanced basic commands:

```bash
sinfo -N -l      # list nodes, state, resources (number of CPUs, memory per node, etc.), and other information
sshare -a        # to list shares of associations to a cluster
sprio -l         # to view the factors that comprise a job's scheduling priority (add -u <username> for filtering user)
```

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