Checking the status of your jobs

So you've launched a job, yay! There are two main ways that you can now check on the status of your jobs.

qstat

Running qstat from your terminal will give you a table with statistics about all of the jobs currently running on the sub-cluster you are logged into. The output of this command will look like:

A much more helpful command however is qstat -u [USERNAME].

What does this table tell us?

Job ID: The unique ID given to our job

Username: The user who launched the job

NDS: Number of nodes reserved

TSK: Number of total processors reserved

Req'd Time: Amount of walltime requested

Elap Time: How long the job has been running for. If the job is in the queue and waiting to be launched, this line will look like -----------

qsu

qsu is a shortcut for qstat -u [USERNAME]. Running it will give you the exact same printout.