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 ====== S.L.U.R.M. ======
-====== workload manager ======
+====== Workload Manager ======
 ===== for Dummies =====
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 # SBATCH...... : this is a comment\\
-The mandatory directives that you must **always** include in the scripts are:
+====The mandatory====
+ directives that you must **always** include in the scripts are:
   - Your email address. the official epfl address or another, but valid (worldwide), email address. **This address mus be always present, no matter if you instruct the system to send or not the email messages**.
   - How much time your job must run (if the job runs over this limit the cluster manager will kill it). the minimum is 1 minute and there's no maximum limit.
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   - How many cores/cpu must be reserved for your job. If you don't include this parameter only one core/cpu will be assigned to your job and you cannot run more than a single threaded job.
   - **the name of the queue/partition** you want to use: currently only ''slurm-cluster'' or ''slurm-ws'' are available.
+==== partitions (a.k.a. queues) ====
+If you used other types of cluster management, you will already known the term ''queue'' to identify the type of nodes/jobs you want to use inside the clusters. in S.L.U.R.M. notation, queues are called **partitions**. The two terms are used to indicate the same entity and usage.
 The beginning of your script will be: