Session 2.3 Getting Started with Batch Job Scheduling

Date: Tuesday, June 24, 2025

Summary: Batch job schedulers are used to manage and fairly distribute the shared resources of high-performance computing (HPC) systems. Learning how to interact with them and compose your work into batch jobs is essential to becoming an effective HPC user.

Presented by: Marty Kandes (mkandes @ucsd.edu)

Reading and Presentations:

• Lecture material:
  • COMPLECS: Batch Computing 1: Working with the Linux Scheduler
  • COMPLECS: Batch Computing 2: Getting Started with Batch Job Scheduling - Slurm Edition
  • COMPLECS: Batch Computing 3: High-Throughput and Many-Task Computing - Slurm Edition
• Source Code/Examples:
  • https://github.com/sdsc-complecs/batch-computing

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