Full course description
Term: Summer 2026
Date: July 15th, 2026
Time: 11:15 a.m. to 12:15 p.m.
Location: Online Only
Instructor: Chris Kuhlman
Presented By: Advanced Research Computing (ARC)
Description:
Prerequisites:
You will need an ARC account to follow along and set up these tools.
Access to a VT network (e.g., on campus [eduroam] or connected to VPN).
Preferred: familiarity with slurm jobs, or the concepts of a slurm job.
Description:
Slurm is used on many clusters to submit jobs (i.e., computational tasks) for execution on cluster resources. Often one thinks of a single atomic operation or computation as one Slurm job, and this is a useful exercise. For many real-world problems, however, one does not run only one job, but rather executes many jobs to perform sensitivity and parametric studies and to study stochastic effects. Here, “many jobs” can mean 10, 100, 1000, 10000, or more jobs. There are multiple ways to run these many jobs. At the end of this workshop, you will understand the various issues around scalable job submission and how to accomplish it.