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Submitting Your First Job

Job Submission​

This tutorial walks you through submitting a simple job to the ACE HPC Cluster using SLURM.

Steps​

Write a Job Script​

Create a file named test_job.sh:

#!/bin/bash
#SBATCH --job-name=test_job
#SBATCH --output=test_job.out
#SBATCH --error=test_job.err
#SBATCH --time=00:05:00
#SBATCH --nodes=1
#SBATCH --ntasks-per-node=1
#SBATCH --mem=1gb

echo "Hello from the ACE HPC Cluster!"
hostname
sleep 60

Submit the Job​

sbatch test_job.sh

You’ll see a job ID (e.g, Submitted batch job 12345).

View yout job in the queue​

squeue -u $USER

Once completed, check test_job.out for output.