salloc

Start an interactive shell on a cluster node

$ salloc

$ salloc ls --all

$ salloc -C "(amd|intel)&gpu"

salloc [options] [command]

salloc allocates resources from a Slurm cluster and starts an interactive shell or executes a specified command. It waits for resources to become available before starting.
Constraints can specify required node features like CPU type, GPU availability, or memory configuration.

-C, --constraint expr

Node feature constraints

Resources are held until the shell exits or command completes. Allocation time depends on cluster load and requested resources.

Part of Slurm workload manager, providing interactive resource allocation for HPC clusters.

srun(1), sbatch(1), squeue(1)