Monthly HPC Café: Slurm batch scheduler best practices and advanced use (December 17, hybrid event)

A cup of coffee and a plate withchristmas cookies on it in front of a computer keyboard.

The last HPC Café in 2024 will take place on December 17, at 4:00 p.m. as a hybrid event. Again, we invite you to an exchange with your favorite HPC group and an interesting talk featuring Christmas goodies and coffee.

The event starts at 4:00 p.m. with an open coffee chat, and at 4:30 p.m., we will start the presentation.

Room: RRZE (Martensstr. 1, 91058 Erlangen), Seminar room 2.049 (2nd floor)

Zoom linkhttps://go-nhr.de/hpc-cafe

Topic: Slurm batch scheduler best practices and advanced use

Slides: 2024-12-17-HPC-Cafe-Slurm.pdf

Speaker: Georg Hager, Thomas Gruber (NHR@FAU)

Abstract: The presentation will give an overview of how to best use Slurm to run batch jobs on the NHR clusters. Special topics such as data staging, multi-GPU jobs, chain jobs, dependencies, proper distribution of work, etc., will receive extra attention. This talk should be interesting to everyone who wants to get most out of Slurm or who needs to optimize their batch workflow.

Material from past events is available at: https://hpc.fau.de/teaching/hpc-cafe/