Managing Jobs and Tasks

Applies To: Microsoft HPC Pack 2008 R2, Microsoft HPC Pack 2012, Microsoft HPC Pack 2012 R2, Windows HPC Server 2008 R2

You can use HPC Job Manager to monitor, modify, or save your submitted jobs.

In this section

• View a Job or Task: View job or task properties, states, and results.

• Track Job State: Monitor the progress of your job.

• Modify a Job: Make changes or add tasks to active jobs.

• Requeue a Job or Task: Put unfinished jobs or tasks back into the queue.

• Copy a Job or Task: Run a job again, either as-is, or with changes.

• Save a Job or Task to a File: Export the job or task specifications to an XML description file.

• Cancel a Job or Task: Remove a job or task from the queue, and free its resources.

• Force Cancel a Job or Task: Stop a job or task immediately.

• Define Excluded Nodes for a Job: If one or more nodes are causing problems for you job, you can exclude them from your resources.

• Set the Progress and Progress Message Job Properties from a Script File: Provide custom progress information about your job.

Note

You can also use a command prompt window or HPC PowerShell to submit, manage, and view jobs on a cluster. For more information, see Online Resources.

Additional references

• Understanding Jobs and Tasks

• Troubleshooting Jobs

• Online Resources