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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