Accounts and computing grants
Allocation's suffix
All supercomputers use a new naming scheme for CPU and GPU computing accounts, which are supplied by the
-A parameter in sbatch command.
Examples of account names:
| Resource | Account name |
|---|---|
| CPU | grantname-cpu |
| CPU bigmem nodes | grantname-cpu-bigmem |
| GPU on Helios | grantname-gpu-gh200 |
| GPU on Athena | grantname-gpu-a100 |
Available computing grants, with respective account names (allocations), can be viewed using the hpc-grants command.
Please mind that sbatch -A grantname won't work on its own. You need to add the relevant suffix!
Common issues
sbatch: error: Batch job submission failed: Invalid account or account/partition combination specified
There might be several reasons (check hpc-grants output):
- grant is not active yet - new data synchronize with PLGrid Portal every one hour
- grant is exhausted
- grant is expired