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Job submission on Dalia

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Slurm Job Manager​

Jobs are managed on Dalia by the Slurm software, as on Jean Zay.

The usual commands allow you to control jobs:

  • sbatch: Submission of a batch file
  • srun: Execution of a task
  • squeue: Checking jobs in the queue
  • scancel: Cancellation of a job
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From the login node, you need to load the module slurm to use Slurm commands (if not already done):

module load slurm/slurm/24.11

Submission via an Apptainer container​

It is recommended to work in Apptainer containers on Dalia.

Example of a submission script:

#!/usr/bin/env bash
#SBATCH --job-name=test_dalia
#SBATCH --output=slurm_log/%x_%j.out
#SBATCH --error=slurm_log/%x_%j.out
## Reservation de la totalité des ressources d'un noeud : 144 CPUs et 4 GPUs
#SBATCH --nodes=1            # Nombre de noeuds
#SBATCH --gpus-per-node=4    # Max 4 GPU par noeud
#SBATCH --ntasks-per-node=4  # Nombre de tache par noeud
#SBATCH --cpus-per-task=36   # Nombre de CPU par tache : 4 * 36 = 144 CPUs
## Temps limite d'execution du travail (HH:MM:SS)
#SBATCH --time=0:40:00

cd $PROJECT_DIR
export APPTAINER_CACHEDIR=/lustre/work/<project_group>/<login>/<cache_directory>
srun apptainer exec --nv --pwd /my_project_dir --bind $PROJECT_DIR:/my_project_dir mon_container.sif <commande> # Use --nv to enable nvidia support
  • --nv allows the use of NVIDIA GPUs in the container;
  • --pwd defines the working directory in the container;
  • --bind allows mounting the directory $PROJECT_DIR to /my_project_dir in the container.