Slurm Output Environment Variables

When a job scheduled by Slurm starts, it needs to know some information about its execution environment. For example, It needs to know the working directory, and what nodes allocated to it. Slurm passes this information to the running job via what so-called environment variables. The following is the most common-used environment variable.

Slurm Environment Variable Description

SLURM_CLUSTER_NAME

Name of the cluster on which the job is executing.

SLURM_CPUS_ON_NODE

Number of CPUs on the allocated node.

SLURM_CPUS_PER_TASK

Number of CPUs requested per task.

SLURM_GPUS

Number of GPUs requested.

SLURM_GPUS_PER_NODE

Requested GPU count per allocated node.

SLURM_GPUS_PER_TASK

Requested GPU count per allocated task.

SLURM_JOB_ID

The ID of the job allocation.

SLURM_JOB_CPUS_PER_NODE

Count of processors available to the job on this node.

SLURM_JOB_NAME

Name of the job.

SLURM_JOB_NODELIST

List of nodes allocated to the job.

SLURM_JOB_NUM_NODES

Total number of nodes in the job’s resource allocation.

SLURM_JOB_PARTITION

Name of the partition in which the job is running.

SLURM_MEM_PER_CPU

Minimum memory required per allocated CPU.

SLURM_MEM_PER_GPU

Requested memory per allocated GPU.

SLURM_MEM_PER_NODE

Total amount of memory per node that the job needs..

SLURM_NODELIST

List of nodes allocated to the job.

SLURM_NPROCS

Total number of CPUs allocated

SLURM_NTASKS

Maximum number of MPI tasks (that’s processes).

SLURM_NTASKS_PER_CORE

Number of tasks requested per core.

SLURM_NTASKS_PER_GPU

Number of tasks requested per GPU.

SLURM_NTASKS_PER_NODE

Number of tasks requested per node.

SLURM_PRIO_PROCESS

The scheduling priority (nice value) at the time of job submission. This value is propagated to the spawned processes.

SLURM_PROCID

The MPI rank (or relative process ID) of the current process.

SLURM_SUBMIT_DIR

The directory from which SBATCH was invoked.

SLURM_SUBMIT_HOST

The Hostname of the computer from which SBATCH was invoked.

SLURM_TASK_PID

The process ID of the corresponding task.