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scancel
scancel
is a scheduler command that cancels a SLURM job.
Documentation
Documentation is available on the system using the command
$ man scancel
Usage
Sometimes you may need to stop a job while it’s running.
You can stop jobs with the scancel
command and the job’s ID
(replacing job-id with the number):
$ scancel job-id
To cancel multiple jobs you can supply a comma separated list:
$ scancel job-id1, job-id2, job-id3