IIRC, slurm parses the batch file as options until it hits the first non-comment line, which includes blank lines.
You may want to double-check some of the gaps in the option section of your batch script.
That being said and you say you removed the '&' at the end of the command, which would help.
If they are all exiting with exit code 9, you need to look at the code for your a.out to see what code 9 means, as that is who is raising that error. Slurm sees that and if it is non-zero, it interprets it as a failed job.
Brian Andrus
On 8/19/2024 12:50 AM, Arko Roy via slurm-users wrote:
Thanks Loris and Gareth. here is the job submission script. if you find any errors please let me know. since i am not the admin but just an user, i think i dont have access to the prolog and epilogue files.
If the jobs are independent, why do you want to run them all on the same node? I am running sequential codes. Essentially 50 copies of the same node with a variation in parameter. Since I am using the Slurm scheduler, the nodes and cores are allocated depending upon the available resources. So there are instances, when 20 of them goes to 20 free cores located on a particular node and the rest 30 goes to the free 30 cores on another node. It turns out that only 1 job out of 20 and 1 job out of 30 are completed succesfully with exitcode 0 and the rest gets terminated with exitcode 9. for information, i run sjobexitmod -l jobid to check the exitcodes.
the submission script is as follows:
#!/bin/bash ################ # Setting slurm options ################
# lines starting with "#SBATCH" define your jobs parameters # requesting the type of node on which to run job ##SBATCH --partition <patition name> #SBATCH --partition=standard
# telling slurm how many instances of this job to spawn (typically 1)
##SBATCH --ntasks <number> ##SBATCH --ntasks=1 #SBATCH --nodes=1 ##SBATCH -N 1 ##SBATCH --ntasks-per-node=1
# setting number of CPUs per task (1 for serial jobs)
##SBATCH --cpus-per-task <number>
##SBATCH --cpus-per-task=1
# setting memory requirements
##SBATCH --mem-per-cpu <memory in MB> #SBATCH --mem-per-cpu=1G
# propagating max time for job to run
##SBATCH --time days-hours:minute:seconds ##SBATCH --time hours:minute:seconds ##SBATCH --time <minutes> #SBATCH --time 10:0:0 #SBATCH --job-name gstate
#module load compiler/intel/2018_4 module load fftw-3.3.10-intel-2021.6.0-ppbepka echo "Running on $(hostname)" echo "We are in $(pwd)"
################ # run the program ################ /home/arkoroy.sps.iitmandi/ferro-detun/input1/a_1.out &