The filenames, paths, email addresses, and some values below are things you will probably need to change. In some cases, values/names have been used to demonstrate possibilities that you could employ (in a slightly different way). Apart from the -l options, no option should appear on multiple lines. Directive(s) | Description of purpose |
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#PBS -c n
#PBS -c s
#PBS -c enabled
| No checkpointing to be performed.
Checkpointing is to be done on a job at pbs_mom shutdown.
Checkpointing is allowed but must be explicitly invoked by a qhold or qchkpt command. | #PBS -d /fast/jc123456
| Defines the working directory path to be used for the job. | #PBS -j oe
#PBS -o /tmp/output.$PBS_O_JOBID
| Merge standard output and standard error streams into the named file. | #PBS -l pmem=8gb
#PBS -l nodes=1:ppn=2
#PBS -l walltime=24:00:00
| Request that 4GB of memory be reserved for the batch job.
Request that 2 CPU cores on 1 host be reserved for the batch job.
Advise the scheduler that this job will have completed within 24 hours. | #PBS -l nodes=2 -I
| Request 2 CPU cores that can be used for interactive job(s).
Note: Our 2 login nodes each provide 18 CPU cores and 64GB of memory for running interactive jobs (without qsub). | #PBS -m ae
#PBS -M john.doe@jcu.edu.au
#PBS -M joe.blogg@my.jcu.edu.au
| Send mail at batch job abort/exit to the Email address provided. | #PBS -N job_name
| Assign a name (job_name) to the batch job | #PBS -V
| Export environment variables to the batch job |
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