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Rosetta Stone of Workload Managers
PBS/Torque, Slurm, LSF, SGE and LoadLeveler Rosetta Stone
This table lists the most common command, environment variables, and job specification options used by the major workload management systems: PBS/Torque, Slurm, LSF, SGE and LoadLeveler. Each of these workload managers has unique features, but the most commonly used functionality is available in all of these environments as listed in the table. This should be considered a work in progress and contributions to improve the document are welcome.
| User Commands | PBS/Torque | Slurm | LSF | SGE | LoadLeveler |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Job submission | qsub [script_file] | sbatch [script_file] | bsub [script_file] | qsub [script_file] | llsubmit [script_file] |
| Job deletion | qdel [job_id] | scancel [job_id] | bkill [job_id] | qdel [job_id] | llcancel [job_id] |
| Job status (by job) | qstat [job_id] | squeue --job [job_id] | bjobs [job_id] | qstat -u \* [-j job_id] | llq -u [username] |
| Job status (by user) | qstat -u [user_name] | squeue -u [user_name] | bjobs -u [user_name] | qstat [-u user_name] | llq -u [user_name] |
| Job hold | qhold [job_id] | scontrol hold [job_id] | bstop [job_id] | qhold [job_id] | llhold -r [job_id] |
| Job release | qrls [job_id] | scontrol release [job_id] | bresume [job_id] | qrls [job_id] | llhold -r [job_id] |
| Queue list | qstat -Q | squeue | bqueues | qconf -sql | llclass |
| Node list | pbsnodes -l | sinfo -N OR scontrol show nodes | bhosts | qhost | llstatus -L machine |
| Cluster status | qstat -a | sinfo | bqueues | qhost -q | llstatus -L cluster |
| GUI | xpbsmon | sview | xlsf OR xlsbatch | qmon | xload |
| Environment | PBS/Torque | Slurm | LSF | SGE | LoadLeveler |
| Job ID | $PBS_JOBID | $SLURM_JOBID | $LSB_JOBID | $JOB_ID | $LOAD_STEP_ID |
| Submit Directory | $PBS_O_WORKDIR | $SLURM_SUBMIT_DIR | $LSB_SUBCWD | $SGE_O_WORKDIR | $LOADL_STEP_INITDIR |
| Submit Host | $PBS_O_HOST | $SLURM_SUBMIT_HOST | $LSB_SUB_HOST | $SGE_O_HOST | |
| Node List | $PBS_NODEFILE | $SLURM_JOB_NODELIST | $LSB_HOSTS/LSB_MCPU_HOST | $PE_HOSTFILE | $LOADL_PROCESSOR_LIST |
| Job Array Index | $PBS_ARRAYID | $SLURM_ARRAY_TASK_ID | $LSB_JOBINDEX | $SGE_TASK_ID |