Exercise 2: Displaying Cluster Information

For this exercise, we will use examples presented in the chapter on displaying cluster information.

a) Display cluster information

Run the commands from the chapter on sinfo command and examine the outputs. Take note of the name of one of the compute nodes (NODELIST column) as we will need it in Exercise 2c.

b) Display information about the queueing jobs

Run the commands from the chapter on squeue command and examine the outputs. In the output obtained by running the squeue command without any options, take note of the user and the job identifier (JOBID) of one of their jobs. We will need the first piece of information when using the squeue command with options in this exercise, and the second piece of information in Exercise 2c.

c) Display detailed information

Run the commands from the chapter on scontrol command and analyze the outputs. In each command, use the node name, user, and job identifier from the previous exercises that we noted down in Exercises 2a in 2b.