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.

using text editor to edit the file submit.sh

vi submit.sh

to save, using :w. to exit the test editor, using :q.

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

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

6. use cat slurm-[xxxxxx].out command, where [xxxxxx] is jobID, to check output.