Full course description
Term: Fall 2026
Date: October 16th, 2026
Time: 12:00 to 1:00 p.m.
Location: Online Only
Instructor: Matt Brown
Presented By: Advanced Research Computing (ARC)
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. Many real-world problems require executing a large quantity of similar jobs to perform sensitivity and parametric studies and to study stochastic effects. Here, “a large quantity of jobs” can mean 10, 100, 1000, 10000, or more jobs. There are multiple ways to run many jobs and we’ll discuss a few of them and how to choose between them.