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The HPC cluster system use the Sun Grid Engine (SGE) queue scheduler system. The feature of a queue scheduler system that users interact with the most is that of job submission. The manual pages for SGE are very good and should be referred to for details. For this particular topic the qsub manual page is the authoritative source.

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man qsub

This document provides a brief introduction to the most common options that might be used to submit jobs to the SGE system. It will focus on single processor jobs as that is the most basic case, but not necessarily the most common. Details on submission of parallel jobs is covered in Advanced Job Submission.

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 qsub optionDescription 
-VThis imports your current environment to the job. This is set by default. As such, it does not have to be specified but is good to know about.
-N [name]The name of the job. Make sure this makes sense to you. 
-l h_rt=hr:min:secMaximum walltime for this job. You may want to specify this if you think your job may run out of control.
-l h_vmem=bytes

You can specify a unit as well. For example,

-l h_vmem=2G

An appropriate value will be set for your job if an entire node is not requested.

-cwdDetermines whether the job will be executed from the current working directory. If not specified, the job will be run from your home directory.
-SSpecify the shell to use when interpreting the job script.
-e [path]Name of a file or directory for standard error.
-o [path]Name of a file or directory for standard output.
-j [y,n]Merge the standard error stream into the standard output stream.
-pe [name] [n]

Parallel environment name and number of slots (cores).

-M email addressSet the email address to receive email about jobs. This must be your University of Iowa email address.
-m b|e|a|s|n,...

Specify when to send an email message

'b'     Mail is sent at the beginning of the job.

'e'     Mail is sent at the end of the job.

'a'     Mail is sent when the job is aborted.

's'     Mail is sent when the job is suspended.

'n'     No mail is sent.

Info

The "mail when job is suspended" option does not currently work.


Note

For multi-node jobs, the CPU and memory accounting info in the job email is only for the master primary queue host. It does not account for the CPU and memory of the slave nodes. That information is in the job accounting record and can be obtained via the qacct command.


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