ACES: Using the Slurm Scheduler on Composable Resources
Overview
Instructor(s): Dr. Michael Dickens
Time: Tuesday, January 20, 2026 — 1:30PM-4:00PM CT
Location: Online using Zoom
Prerequisite(s): Current ACCESS ID, basic Linux/Unix skills
Introduction to using the Slurm scheduler on the ACES cluster, a composable accelerator testbed at Texas A&M University. Topics covered include multiple job scheduling approaches and job management tools.
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Course Materials
Participation
During the training, attendees are expected to log in to an HPRC cluster using their own computer and complete the instructor-led examples and exercises.
Learning Objectives and Agenda
In this course, participants will:
- Learn the basics of HPC architecture
- Learn the basic components of a job script
- Learn how to submit a job script
- Learn how to review job HPC resource usage
- Learn how to debug failed jobs
This short course will cover various job scheduling approaches using the Slurm Workload Manager on ACES:
- HPC Architecture
- SBATCH Parameters
- Single node jobs
- single-core
- multi-core
- Multi-node jobs
- MPI jobs
- TAMULauncher
- array jobs
- Monitoring job resource usage
- at runtime
- after job completion
- job debugging