Job monitoring

Queue status¶

To view information about jobs located in the SLURM scheduling queue use the squeue command.

squeue

The columns in the above output represent the below:

• JOBID: job ID
• PARTITION: partition (queue)
• NAME: job name
• USER: username
• ST: Job State/Status
  • R: Running
  • PD: PenDing
  • TO: TimedOut
  • S: Suspended
  • CD: Completed
  • CA: CAncelled
  • F: Failed
  • NF: Node Failure
• TIME: time used by the job
• NODES: number of nodes requested
• NODELIST: list of nodes occupied by the job

To vuew only the jobs of a specific user the -u option is used:

squeue -u username

Job information¶

To view detailed job information use the scontrol command as below.

scontrol show job job_id

The above command can be useful to check the estimated StartTime of your queued job.

Job deletion¶

To cancel a job use the scancel command.

scancel job_id

To cancel all running jobs of a specific user use the -u option.

scancel -u username