Problem

Is it possible to run your pre- and post-processing analysis on a CSCS system?

Solution

The Slurm partition for pre- and post-processing at CSCS is prepost: please don't run directly on the login nodes, as they are a shared resource, but use the Slurm partition prepost. You can submit your job on the Slurm partition prepost in two ways:

  • Add the directive #SBATCH --partition=prepost to the header of your batch script

OR

  • Submit your Slurm job using the command sbatch --partition=prepost <scriptname>

Please note that the following preference list holds with sbatch :

  1. command line argument (--partition=)
  2. script directive (#SBATCH --partition=)

If the post-processing job depends on a production job, please use the Slurm dependency option -d, --dependency=<dependency_list>  as described in man sbatch .

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