scancel

Use the ‘scancel’ command to withdraw a job:

[johnchris@andromeda ~]$ scancel 2217697

sacct

‘sacct’ displays accounting data for all jobs and job steps in the Slurm job accounting log or Slurm Database, providing both live and historic data.

‘sacct’ can track users’ recent jobs and display job IDs and other details:

[johnchris@andromeda ~]$ sacct

JobID JobName Partition Account AllocCPUS State ExitCode ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2217697 sample long johnchris 48 CANCELLED+ 0:0 2217698 sample long johnchris 48 PENDING 0:0 2217702 sample long johnchris 48 PENDING 0:0 2217703 bash short johnchris 4 RUNNING 0:0 2217703.ext+ extern johnchris 4 RUNNING 0:0 2217703.0 bash johnchris 4 RUNNING 0:0

‘sacct -j jobid’ will display only the specified job(s):

[johnchris@andromeda ~]$ sacct -j 2193166

JobID JobName Partition Account AllocCPUS State ExitCode ------------ --------- ---------- --------- ---------- ---------- -------- 2216924 sample short johnchris 12 RUNNING 0:0 2216924.bat+ batch short johnchris 12 RUNNING 0:0 2216924.ext+ extern short johnchris 12 RUNNING 0:0

‘sacct’ can provide a detailed report on the memory, CPU, and other usage metrics of a job:

[johnchris@andromeda ~]$ sacct -j 2412831 --format JobID,Elapsed,ReqMem,MaxRSS,AllocCPUs,TotalCPU,State

JobID Elapsed ReqMem MaxRSS AllocCPUS TotalCPU State ------------ -------- ------- ------- --------- -------- --------- 2412831 03:39:19 128Gn 128 128 00:00:00 RUNNING 2412831.bat+ 03:39:19 128Gn 32 128 00:00:00 RUNNING 2412831.ext+ 03:39:19 128Gn 128 128 00:00:00 RUNNING 2412831.0 03:38:50 128Gn 3 128 00:00:00 RUNNING

scontrol

‘scontrol show job jobid’ will show detailed information about the job with the specified ID, including the job script:

[johnchris@andromeda ~]$ scontrol show job 2412831

JobId=4490999 JobName=Jupyter UserId=johnchris(397590777) GroupId=johnchris(397590777) MCS_label=N/A Priority=635588 Nice=0 Account=tianees QOS=normal WCKey=* JobState=RUNNING Reason=None Dependency=(null) Requeue=1 Restarts=1 BatchFlag=2 Reboot=0 ExitCode=0:0 RunTime=5-17:23:51 TimeLimit=30-00:00:00 TimeMin=N/A SubmitTime=2025-06-24T18:24:01 EligibleTime=2025-06-24T18:26:02 AccrueTime=2025-06-24T18:26:02 StartTime=2025-06-24T18:26:12 EndTime=2025-07-24T18:26:12 Deadline=N/A SuspendTime=None SecsPreSuspend=0 LastSchedEval=2025-06-24T18:26:12 Scheduler=Backfill Partition=tianees AllocNode:Sid=a002:1708834 ReqNodeList=(null) ExcNodeList=g[001-009] NodeList=cht002 BatchHost=cht002 NumNodes=1 NumCPUs=62 NumTasks=1 CPUs/Task=62 ReqB:S:C:T=0:0:: ReqTRES=cpu=62,mem=58G,node=1 AllocTRES=cpu=62,mem=58G,node=1 Socks/Node=* NtasksPerN:B:S:C=0:0:: CoreSpec=* MinCPUsNode=62 MinMemoryNode=58G MinTmpDiskNode=0 Features=(null) DelayBoot=00:00:00 OverSubscribe=OK Contiguous=0 Licenses=(null) Network=(null) Command=/home/johnchris/jupyter.sl WorkDir=/home/johnchris StdErr=/home/johnchris/jupyter.out StdIn=/dev/null StdOut=/home/johnchris/jupyter.out Power= TresPerTask=cpu:62 MailUser=johnchris@bc.edu MailType=BEGIN,END,FAIL