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• The number of tasks the job will create:

  • #SBATCH -n 1

• The runtime of the job in Days-Hours:Minutes (N.B. max wall time is 7 days):

  • #SBATCH -t 0-12:00

• A file based on the jobid %j where the normal output of the program (STDOUT) should be saved:

  • #SBATCH -o slurm.%j.out

• A file based on the jobid %j where the error output of the program (STDERR) should be saved:

  • #SBATCH -e slurm.%j.err

• That email notifications should be sent out when the job starts, ends, or when it fails:

  • #SBATCH --mail-type=ALL

• The address where email should be sent (%u is automatically replaced with submitter’s username, which is by default the user’s asurite):

  • #SBATCH --mail-user=%u@asu.edu

• A purge of the shell environment otherwise inherited from the job-submission shell

  • #SBATCH --export=NONE

• It is a good practice to always purge any modules that may have been loaded before an sbatch script was submitted as they will still be active:

  • module purge

• This loads python so that it is the active version:

  • module load anaconda/py3

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