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Introduction to Slurm

Explore the Slurm Workload Manager to understand how it allocates and manages computing resources, schedules jobs, and handles job queues in HPC environments. This lesson covers Slurm's key features, components, and commands to help you manage parallel computing jobs effectively.

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The Slurm Workload Manager (formerly known as Simple Linux Utility for Resource Management or SLURM), is a free and open-source job scheduler for Linux and Unix-like kernels, used by many of the world’s supercomputers and computer clusters. It provides three key functions.

  • First, it allocates exclusive and/or non-exclusive access to resources (computer nodes) to users for some duration of time so they can perform work.
  • Second, it provides a framework for starting, executing, and monitoring work
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