Suspend a Job

Suspend a running job when a higher priority job requires computing resources.

Drill-down to jobs that are running on a particular HPC cluster, have been submitted to a particular queue, or are owned by a particular user.

When suspended, a job continues to occupy system resources (memory), but is not executing and is not charged for walltime.

  1. Choose one of the following options to select jobs:
    • Select multiple jobs by enabling the selection checkbox next to the jobs and clicking Actions.
    • Select a single job by clicking Click the down arrow next to the state of the job.
    • Select all jobs on the current page by clicking the Select All checkbox and clicking Actions.
    Tip: Perform a job search to filter jobs and then use the Select All checkbox to select all the jobs on the current page that match the search criteria. Click the reset link to deselect all jobs.

    Use Select All Checkbox
    Figure 1. Use Select All Checkbox
    As jobs are selected, the total number of selected jobs is displayed.
  2. Click Suspend.
    The job is suspended and computing resources (CPUs and GPUs) are freed for use by other jobs.