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 **Submitting a Job** **Submitting a Job**
  
-The cluster uses [[http://www.schedmd.com|SLURM]] for scheduling and resource management. Key commands to view the status of the cluster are+The cluster uses [[http://www.schedmd.com|SLURM]] for scheduling and resource management.Slurm 
 +is an open-source cluster resource management and job scheduling system that strives to be simple, scalable, portable, fault-tolerant, and interconnect agnostic. Slurm currently has been tested only under Linux. 
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 +As a cluster resource manager, Slurm provides three key functions. First,it allocates exclusive and/or non-exclusive access to resources(compute nodes) to users for some duration of time so they can perform 
 +work. Second, it provides a framework for starting, executing, and monitoring work (normally a parallel job) on the set of allocated nodes. Finally, it arbitrates conflicting requests for resources by managing a queue of pending work. 
 +Key commands to view the status of the cluster are
  
 **sinfo** reports the state of partitions and nodes managed by SLURM. It has a wide variety of filtering, sorting, and formatting options **sinfo** reports the state of partitions and nodes managed by SLURM. It has a wide variety of filtering, sorting, and formatting options
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