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The job scheduling system running at Altamira is SLURM. Current version of Slurm in Altamira is 17.11.6.

Queues

Slurm has queues to......In altamira, there are some queues configured. This table resume the main queues and the principal properties of each of them:


GroupQueueDescriptionProperties
LocalmainMain queue for local users
  • Max Number of nodes: 158
  • Max Wall time:3 days
  • Max Number of Jobs Per User: 1000

Res

res_aMain queue for RES users
  • Max Number of nodes: 64
  • Max Wall time:3 days
  • Max Number of Jobs Per User: 500
res_cQueue assigned for res users when they reach the period hours limits requested
  • Max Number of nodes: 4
  • Max Wall time:1 day
  • Max Number of Jobs Per User: 10


Connecting to Altamira

Once you have a username and its associated password you can get into Altamira system, connecting to one of the the 2 login nodes at altamira1.ifca.es in the case of the first login or altamira2.ifca.es for the second one (see Login node to know more information about the login nodes). The password provided is temporal, you must change this initial password after connecting to IPA. Also use a strong password (do not use a word or phrase from a dictionary and do not use a word that can be obviously tied to your person). 

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This table describes the common directives you can define in your job (see below an example):

DirectiveDescriptionDefault value
--job-name=value
The name of the job that appears in the batch queuescript_name






Job examples

Example for a sequential job:

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