===== Common terms in SLURM language =====


  * **cpu**: hardware processor, generally termed core (not logical CPU entity, no hyperthreading)
  * **node**: computing host

  * **queue**: scheduling of jobs on a partition/group of nodes
  * **partition**: a group of nodes with similar computing capabilities
  * **task**: process (threaded or non-threaded) running within a SLURM job context (does not need to do resource allocation)
  * **allocation**: reservation of resources for interactive/batch job
  * **job**: batch or interactive workload, consistion of one or several job steps (needs resource allocation)
  * **step**: single command as part of a job

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