On Fri, Jan 20, 2017 at 11:16 AM, John Hearns <john.hea...@xma.co.uk> wrote: > As I remember, in SGE and in PbsPro a job has a directory created for it on > the execution host which is a temporary directory, named with he jobid. > you can define int he batch system configuration where the root of these > directories is. > > On running srun env, the only TMPDIR I see is /tmp > I know - RTFM. I bet I haven't realised that this si easy to set up... > > Specifically I would like a temprary job directory which is > /local/$SLURM_JOBID > > I guess I can create this in the job then delete it, but it would be cleaner > if the batch system deleted it and didnt allow for failed jobs or bad > scripts leaving it on disk.
this has come up on the list a few times over the years that i can recall, but i don't have specific pointers. there were some pretty fancy scripts that slurm could run to create a scratch space allocation on the local node. search back through the history
