Accounting and Job History Retrieval

Summary

How to see slurm job records in Koko. Slurm job records show memory usage in addition to time start/end. Click here to learn more.

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Slurms job records can show information including memory usage, time start/end, and other details about your jobs submitted to the cluster. This can be helpful for creating a more efficient resource allocation to your jobs or help with looking into any errors you may run into.

 

How to show job information on a specific job:

hpc@koko-login:$ sacct -j jobid

You can also add a format to the sacct command:

hpc@koko-login:$ sacct -j jobid --format="User,Jobid,Jobname,partition,state,time,start,end,elapsed,nodelist"

To look at jobs starting from a specific date:

hpc@koko-login:$ sacct --starttime 2021-02-18 --format="User,Jobid,Jobname,partition,state,time,start,end,elapsed,nodelist"

A list of available format parameters and other options for sacct can be found here

 

How to look at jobs currently in queue:

hpc@koko-login:$ squeue -u netid

A list of parameters for squeue can be found here

 

How to look at available nodes:

hpc@koko-login:$ sinfo

Additional information on sinfo can be found here

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Article ID: 141354
Created
Mon 8/22/22 9:58 AM
Modified
Wed 5/3/23 9:08 AM