sbcast (1)

sbcast [-CfFjpstvV] SOURCE DEST

sbcast is used to transmit a file to all nodes allocated to the currently active SLURM job. This command should only be executed from within a SLURM batch job or within the shell spawned after a SLURM job's resource allocation. SOURCE is the name of a file on the current node. DEST should be the fully qualified pathname for the file copy to be created on each node. DEST should be on a file system local to that node. Note that parallel file systems may provide better performance than sbcast can provide, although performance will vary by file size, degree of parallelism, and network type.

-C, --compress

Compress the file being transmitted.

-f, --force

If the destination file already exists, replace it.

-F number, --fanout=number

Specify the fanout of messages used for file transfer. Maximum value is currently eight.

-j number, --jobid=number

Specify the jobid to use. If ran inside an allocation this is unneeded as the jobid will read from the environment.

-p, --preserve

Preserves modification times, access times, and modes from the original file.

-s size, --size=size

Specify the block size used for file broadcast. The size can have a suffix of k or m for kilobytes or megabytes respectively (defaults to bytes). This size subject to rounding and range limits to maintain good performance. This value may need to be set on systems with very limited memory.

-t seconds, fB--timeout=seconds

Specify the message timeout in seconds. The default value is MessageTimeout as reported by "scontrol show config". Setting a higher value may be necessitated by relatively slow I/O performance on the compute node disks.

-v, --verbose

Provide detailed event logging through program execution.

-V, --version

Print version information and exit.

Some sbcast options may be set via environment variables. These environment variables, along with their corresponding options, are listed below. (Note: Command line options will always override these settings.)

SBCAST_COMPRESS

-C, --compress

SBCAST_FANOUT

-F number, fB--fanout=number

SBCAST_FORCE

-f, --force

SBCAST_PRESERVE

-p, --preserve

SBCAST_SIZE

-s size, --size=size

SBCAST_TIMEOUT

-t seconds, fB--timeout=seconds

When using the SLURM db, users who have AdminLevel's defined (Operator or Admin) and users who are account coordinators are given the authority to invoke sbcast on other user's jobs.

Using a batch script, transmit local file my.prog to /tmp/my.proc on the local nodes and then execute it.

> cat my.job
#!/bin/bash
sbcast my.prog /tmp/my.prog
srun /tmp/my.prog

> sbatch --nodes=8 my.job
srun: jobid 12345 submitted

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