KAUST Supercomputing Laboratory Newsletter 23rd April 2020
In this newsletter:
- System Maintenance
- RCAC Meeting
- Tip of the Week: Cancelling a running job by its name
- Follow us on Twitter
- Previous Announcements
- Previous Tips
System Maintenance
The next maintenance session will take place from 08:00 on Monday 11th May until 17:00 on Wednesday 13th May. There will be no access to the system during this period.
RCAC Meeting
The project submission deadline for the next RCAC meeting is 30th April 2020. Please note that the RCAC meetings are held once per month. Projects received on or before the submission deadline will be included in the agenda for the subsequent RCAC meeting. The detailed procedures, updated templates and forms are available here: https://www.hpc.kaust.edu.sa/account-applications
Tip of the Week: Cancelling a running job by its name
If you need to cancel a running job, you typically use the scancel command followed by the job id:
% squeue -u $USER
JOBID PARTITION NAME USER STATE TIME TIME_LIMI NODES NODELIST(REASON)
14185711 workq my_jobName kortass RUNNING 43:53 2:00:00 1 nid00312
Did you know that you can cancel it using its name instead of its id with the following scancel command option?
% scancel --name my_jobName
This is also a convenient way to kill/cancel a set of jobs sharing the same name or to avoid canceling an unwanted job by choosing a wrong id after misreading the output of the squeue command.
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