Colloquium 2025 Preview of the "Job Scheduling and Monitoring" self-paced course

The growing library of self-paced courses offered by SHARCNet provide materials that directly relate to research productivity on Alliance compute clusters. This colloquium presentation is a preview to a soon to be release self-paced course on job scheduling and monitoring resources on Alliance clusters. The material in this course includes introductory bash prerequisite to working with the scheduler, introduction to the role of the scheduler on a compute cluster, basics of using the SLURM scheduler, scheduling properties that are specific to the Alliance environment, methods for monitoring jobs on the clusters both from the terminal on the cluster and from portals being developed for users. This colloquium is not only intended to be an opportunity to discuss the content of the self-paced course, but also an opportunity to gather input from users about important issues to add to the course in its final revisions.