Running sbatch jobs - Green-Biome-Institute/Xsede GitHub Wiki

Xsede runs on a slurm scheduler. This is basically a program that allows you to submit jobs/tasks that you would run on the command line, and puts those jobs into the queue on the Xsede servers. Remember there are thousands of other scientists computing on these servers, and this system allows everyone to submit their jobs so that the system can run them on a priority based timely manner. With the slurm scheduler, you will be submitting your job and it will start running when your time comes, and complete the job you requested to be run. The nice thing about this is, you can submit a bunch of jobs and forget about them. I know you will not forget about them, but you get the point. You will be submitting a batch script which is basically a text file with some information and the command line task you want to be run. You can find more information on submitting these jobs through this page. But I will talk about some basics here, which is probably enough information for you to start running your jobs.