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Optimising jobs

The UPPMAX clusters use the Slurm job scheduler. However, a job may not have run optimally, i.e. reserving CPU power and/or memory that is not used.

This page describes how to optimise your Slurm jobs.

Commands

Warning

Many of these are only available on Bianca

You will probably have good use of the following commands:

Command Description
finishedjobinfo information about finished jobs
jobinfo telling you about running and waiting jobs
jobstats see CPU and memory use of finished job in a plot
projinfo telling you about the CPU hour usage of your projects
projmembers telling you about project memberships
projsummary [project id] summarises some useful information about projects
uquota telling you about your file system usage

Check you storage with uquota

Check your CPU hour usage with projinfo