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5.7) Job Submission And Control


The batch scheduler provides functions to:

  • submit jobs, both interactive and batch jobs
  • monitor jobs and status of the job queue
  • cancel/delete jobs

Below are listed the important batch scheduler commands along with a brief description. The full documentation for these commands can be accessed via the man pages, e.g. man qsub.

Command  Description
qsub Submits a batch job to queue
qsh Submits a request for an interactive X-Windows session to queue
qrsh Submits a request for an interactive session to the queue, using current terminal for user interaction
qstat Show status of jobs and queues
qdel Deletes job from queue
qacct Get accounting data, job/queue usage