Running Jobs

In an HPC environment, the tasks that users want to perform are generically called jobs. These must not be confused with the “jobs” of the Unix jobs command, although the concepts are related. An HPC “job” is a combination of resource requests, any setup required such as loading modules, and the actual commands required to run the desired software.

HPC jobs are run on compute nodes, not on the interactive frontends.

In the Introduction we discussed using the OOD job composer to submit and monitor jobs. When working at the command line, we must use more detailed features of Slurm. Please go through our tutorial to learn how to write and submit Slurm scripts from the command line.