Monitoring your jobs

SLURM commands

To monitor your jobs, you can use of of those commands. For details run them with the --help option:

scontrol show jobid <jobid> lists detailed information for a job (useful for troubleshooting). scontrol show nodes lists nodes and their properties.

sacct -j <jobid> --format=JobID,JobName,MaxRSS,Elapsed will give you statistics on completed jobs by jobID. Once your job has completed, you can get additional information that was not available during the run. This includes run time, memory used, etc.

CPU load and memory consumption of your job

Scicluster has only limited resources and usually a high demand. Therefore using the available resources as efficient as possible is paramount to have short queueing times and getting most out of your quota.