Documentation

NOTE: This documentation is for Slurm version 25.05.
Documentation for older versions of Slurm are distributed with the source, or may be found in the archive.

Slurm Users

• Quick Start User Guide
• Command/option Summary (two pages)
• Man Pages
• Rosetta Stone of Workload Managers
• Job Array Support
• Heterogeneous Job Support
• CPU Management User and Administrator Guide
• MPI and UPC Users Guide
• Support for Multi-core/Multi-threaded Architectures
• Multi-Cluster Operation
• Profiling Using HDF5 User Guide
• Job Reason Codes
• Job State Codes
• Job Exit Codes
• Resource Binding
• Specific Systems
  • Intel Knights Landing (KNL) User and Administrator Guide

Slurm Administrators

• Quick Start Administrator Guide
• Upgrade Guide
• Accounting
• Advanced Resource Reservation Guide
• Authentication Plugins
• Burst Buffer Guide
• Cgroups Guide
• "Configless" Slurm Operation
• Configuration Tool (Full version)
• Configuration Tool (Simplified version)
• Containers
• CPU Management User and Administrator Guide
• Dynamic Nodes
• Elasticsearch Guide
• Job Completion Kafka plugin Guide
• job_container/tmpfs - Job Specific Temporary File Management
• JSON Web Tokens Authentication
• Federated Scheduling Guide
• Job Containment (SSH Session Control) with pam_slurm_adopt
• Kubernetes Guide
• Large Cluster Administration Guide
• License Management
• Hierarchical Resources (HRES) (in Beta)
• Multi-Category Security (MCS) Guide
• Name Service Caching Through NSS Slurm
• Network Configuration Guide
• OpenAPI Plugin Release Notes
• Power Saving Guide (power down idle nodes)
• Prolog and Epilog Guide
• Slurm REST API
  • Quick Start Guide
  • API Details
  • API Methods and Models
  • Client Guide
• Slurm SELinux Context Management
• Troubleshooting Guide
• User Permissions
• WCKey Management
• Workload Prioritization
  • Multifactor Job Priority
  • Classic Fairshare Algorithm
  • Depth-Oblivious Fair-share Factor
  • Fair Tree Fairshare Algorithm
• Slurm Scheduling
  • Scheduling Configuration Guide
  • Consumable Resources Guide
  • Core Specialization
  • Gang Scheduling
  • Generic Resource (GRES) Scheduling
  • High Throughput Computing Guide
  • Preemption
  • Quality of Service (QOS)
  • Resource Limits
  • Resource Reservation Guide
  • Sharing Consumable Resources
  • Topology
  • Trackable Resources (TRES)
• Cloud
  • Cloud Scheduling Guide
  • Slurm on Google Cloud Platform
  • Deploying Slurm with ParallelCluster on Your AWS Cluster
  • Slurm on Microsoft Azure and CycleCloud

Slurm Developers

• Contributor Agreement
• Programmer Guide
• Application Programmer Interface (API) Guide
• Adding Files or Plugins to Slurm
• Design Information
  • Generic Resource (GRES) Design Guide
  • Job Launch Design Guide
  • Select Plugin Design Guide
• Plugin Programmer Guide
• Plugin Interface Details
  • Command Line Filter Plugin Programmer Guide
  • Job Submission Plugin Programmer Guide
  • PrEp Plugin Programmer Guide
  • Site Factor (Priority) Plugin Programmer Guide

Last modified 23 May 2025