Slurm Partitions

The slurm scheduler uses partitions as the method to allocate resources to jobs. The FRCE cluster has several partitions defined, with the major ones summarized below.

Two other partitions will be displayed in the sinfo output. The dragen partition has several servers for the exclusive use by the CCR Sequencing Facility while csbdevel provides a priority channel for a set of programmers who make frequent changes to their code.

A submit script that requests a particular partition might read

#!/bin/bash
#SBATCH --job-name=myjob
#SBATCH --ntasks=8
#SBATCH --time=00:05:00
#SBATCH --partition=short
printf "You are now executing on node %s using {} CPU cores.\n" ${SLURMD_NODENAME} ${SLURM_NPROCS}

Please note the first line, #!/bin/bash in job script is important. Otherwise, SLURM will not let the script be submitted.

To use GPU in the cluster, change the script headers to

#!/bin/bash
#SBATCH --job-name=myjob
#SBATCH --ntasks=8
#SBATCH --time=00:05:00
#SBATCH --partition=gpu
#SBATCH --gres=gpu:p100:1
printf "%s GPU(s) have been allocated with the identification string\n\t%s\n" \
    ${SLURM_GPUS_ON_NODE} "$(nvidia-smi -L)"