[slurm-users] Why is --cpu_bind not an option for sbatch? Why only srun?

[David Henkemeyer]

We noticed that we can pass --cpu_bind into an srun commandline, but not sbatch.  Why is that?

Thanks

David

[Brian Andrus]

If I were to hazard a guess, I would say that srun actually runs things
whereas sbatch submits and runs a batch command.
How would sbatch get 'hostname' to run on a particular cpu?
Within sbatch, you could do that by using srun to run 'hostname'.
So it is the execution step that is where you would do that and those
are subsets of sbatch.

Brian Andrus