[Jlab-scicomp-briefs] Upcoming changes to batch farm job submission

[Bryan Hess]

Beginning on March 1st, 2022 the Auger and swif version 1 commands will no longer be available. They have been superseded by the Slurm workload manager and by and swif version 2 (swif2):

  *   Slurm includes GPU and MPI support, features absent in Auger. Detailed documentation on how to use Slurm on the farm is available here:  https://scicomp.jlab.org/docs/farm_slurm_batch

  *   Swif2 is built on top of Slurm and supports running workflows with file staging, both locally and at remote sites. The manual is available here:  https://scicomp.jlab.org/swif2.html

For more information on the upcoming change and the changes to the job submission, please see the migration guide:

 https://scicomp.jlab.org/docs/farm_auger_migration_guide



For further questions on Slurm, swif2, or the schedule, please submit a request to ServiceNow at https://jlab.servicenowservices.com<https://jlab.servicenowservices.com/> or by emailing helpdesk at jlab.org




Schedule


On Tuesday, January 4th the following commands will be deprecated and issue a warning:

  *   jsub, jkill, jobinfo, swif1, swif

On Tuesday, February 8th, jobs submitted using Auger or swif1 will have reduced scheduling capacity to encourage transition to Slurm and swif2.


On Tuesday, March 1st, the deprecated commands will be removed, Auger and SWIF1 services will be shut down, and documentation will be removed. The swif command will become an alias for swif2.

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