Jobs FAQs

MSI's Jobs FAQs

Get solutions for queue submissions, job start issues, supercomputer efficiency, job failures, walltime extension, email output, group changes, GNU Parallel usage, calculation terminations, job arrays, and understanding job exit statuses.

FAQs at MSI
How do I submit jobs to a partition?
Why won't my job start? It is just waiting in the queue.
Will supercomputers always be faster than a workstation?
Why does my job fail after only a couple seconds?
Why does my job die with an error like one of these: Cannot write to file, File…
How do I get the walltime of my running job increased?
I need to see the email output from my jobs. How do I send this email output to…
How do I change groups?
How can I use GNU Parallel to run a lot of commands in parallel?
Why is my calculation killed after a few minutes?
How do I use a job array?
What does job exit status XX mean?

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