Checking job status

There are two methods to check your job status.

Method 1: show_job

We provide a show_job script. This script groups information, filters, sorts, and provides statistics to provide a clean, tidy, and user-friendly output.

[lexg@m3-login3 ~]$ show_job
Job Summary
+-----------------------+--------------------------------+
| Summary               | Value                          |
+-----------------------+--------------------------------+
| Cluster               | M3                             |
| User Name             | Lex Gallon (Monash University) |
| Num of Submitted Jobs | 0                              |
| Num of Running Job    | 0                              |
| Num of CPU Cores      | 0                              |
+-----------------------+--------------------------------+
********************
Job Details on M3
********************
+----+------+---------+---------+-----------+-----+-------+--------------+----------+-------------+---------+
| ID | USER | ACCOUNT | JOBNAME | PARTITION | QOS | STATE | RUNNING TIME | WALLTIME | NO OF NODES | DETAILS |
+----+------+---------+---------+-----------+-----+-------+--------------+----------+-------------+---------+
+----+------+---------+---------+-----------+-----+-------+--------------+----------+-------------+---------+
*********************
Job History on M3 sorted by attribute <start> start from 2024-09-17T17:02:05
*********************
+----------+---------------------+----------+---------+----------+----------+-----------------------+-----------+
| Job ID   | Job Name            | Username | Account | Priority | Hostname | Requested Memory (MB) | Status    |
+----------+---------------------+----------+---------+----------+----------+-----------------------+-----------+
| 39883309 | interactive_session | lexg     | nq46    | 106198   | m3i023   | 4096                  | COMPLETED |
| 39883037 | Desktop             | lexg     | nq46    | 106198   | m3j002   | 4096                  | CANCELLED |
| 39882958 | interactive_session | lexg     | nq46    | 106198   | m3i029   | 4096                  | COMPLETED |
| 39882955 | interactive_session | lexg     | nq46    | 106198   | m3i029   | 4096                  | CANCELLED |
| 39882906 | interactive_session | lexg     | nq46    | 106198   | m3i022   | 4096                  | COMPLETED |
| 39882703 | smux-job            | lexg     | nq46    | 106198   | m3i020   | 4096                  | COMPLETED |
| 39878936 | bash                | lexg     | nq46    | 132851   | m3n103   | 4096                  | FAILED    |
| 39878241 | smux-job            | lexg     | nq46    | 106198   | m3i018   | 4096                  | TIMEOUT   |
| 39878231 | interactive_session | lexg     | nq46    | 106194   | m3n103   | 65536                 | CANCELLED |
| 39877919 | interactive_session | lexg     | nq46    | 106194   | m3n103   | 65536                 | CANCELLED |
| 39877874 | tmux                | lexg     | nq46    | 132851   | m3n103   | 4096                  | COMPLETED |
| 39877731 | bash                | lexg     | nq46    | 132851   | m3n102   | 4096                  | TIMEOUT   |
| 39777081 | bash                | lexg     | nq46    | 132846   | m3a120   | 4096                  | FAILED    |
+----------+---------------------+----------+---------+----------+----------+-----------------------+-----------+
You may run show_job --help for more information about the command

Hint

To check the status of a single job use show_job [JOBID].

Method 2: Slurm commands

To display all of your running/pending jobs use squeue -u `whoami`.

Hint

whoami returns your M3 username, and is a handy shortcut.

$ squeue -u `whoami`
         JOBID PARTITION     NAME     USER ST       TIME  NODES NODELIST(REASON)

If you want to view the status of a single job

$ scontrol show job [JOBID]