Slurm Account list

When you submit a job to the HPC, it must run under a Slurm Account¹. If you do not specify an account, it will default to the genacc_q Slurm Account.

Several Slurm Accounts are general access resources, which means anybody with an RCC user account can submit jobs to them.

Other Slurm Accounts are owner based. These are available only to research groups that have purchased dedicated resources on our system.

See what Slurm Accounts you have access to

From the shell on one of our login nodes, use the rcctool command to see which accounts you have access to:

$ rcctool my:account

To see all the Slurm Accounts available both generally and to specific research groups, use the following rcctool command:

$ rcctool my:queues --all

General access Slurm accounts

Below is a list of the general access Slurm Accounts with some relevant information.

Slurm Account	Default Runtime	Max Runtime	Max CPU Cores/Job	Max Jobs/User	Max Running Jobs/User
genacc_q	14 days	14 days	400	100	100
backfill	4 hours	4 hours	512	100	100
backfill2	4 hours	4 hours	512	100	100
condor	14 days	90 days	8	100	100
quicktest	10 minutes	10 minutes	8	2	1

For full details about Slurm accounts, refer to our self-service portal.

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1. Slurm Accounts used to be known as partitions. Some HPC centers and universities refer to them as queues. Regardless, all three terms are synonymous. ↩