Grace:Batch Job Commands

Job Monitoring and Control Commands

After a job has been submitted, you may want to check on its progress or cancel it. Below is a list of the most used job monitoring and control commands for jobs on Grace.

Job Monitoring and Control Commands

Function	Command	Example
Submit a job	sbatch [script_file]	sbatch FileName.job
Cancel/Kill a job	scancel [job_id]	scancel 101204
Check status of a single job	squeue --job [job_id]	squeue --job 101204
Check status of all jobs for a user	squeue -u [user_name]	squeue -u User1
Check CPU and memory efficiency for a job (Use only on finished jobs)	seff [job_id]	seff 101204

Here is an example of the seff command provides for a finished job:

% seff 12345678
Job ID: 12345678
Cluster: grace
User/Group: username/groupname
State: COMPLETED (exit code 0)
Nodes: 16
Cores per node: 28
CPU Utilized: 1-17:05:54
CPU Efficiency: 94.63% of 1-19:25:52 core-walltime
Job Wall-clock time: 00:05:49
Memory Utilized: 310.96 GB (estimated maximum)
Memory Efficiency: 34.70% of 896.00 GB (56.00 GB/node)