Running your first job

1. preparing the script by copy the template to your home

cd
cp -r /project/common/Introduction-to-LANTA/firstJob/ .

2. navigating to firstJob directory

cd firstJob/

3. modify the script according to your registration detail, i.e. change lt123456 (line 7) to your own project ID.

#!/bin/bash -l
#SBATCH -p compute                 #specify partition
#SBATCH -N 1                       #specify number of nodes
#SBATCH --cpus-per-task=1          #specify number of cpus
#SBATCH -t 1:00:00                 #job time limit <hr:min:sec>
#SBATCH -J fisrtjob                #job name
#SBATCH -A lt123456                #specify your account ID

echo "Welcome to LANTA"
echo "use 'myqueue' command to check job status"
sleep 60

more about the script

This script call 1 node (-N 1) and 1 CPU core (--cpus-per-task=1) for maximum 1 hour (-t 1:00:00) in compute partition (-p compute). The job will be named as fisrtjob (-J fisrtjob) and charged in lt123456 account (-A lt123456).

The script will print out "Welcome to LANTA" and "use 'myqueue' command to check job status", then sleep for 60 seconds.

4. submitting the job to the queueing system by using

sbatch submit.sh

5. use myqueue command to check your job status, see Checking Job status for mor detail.