INTRODUCTION
Slurm can parallelize jobs very nicely if each file has some form of a number in it’s title. For example if your files look like “MYPREFIX0004.txt, MYPREFIX0005.txt, MYPREFIX0006.txt, ect” you could do:
Then just use the $mylib variable in your script and call the script like so:
which will have the slurm scheduler submit parallel jobs for you to make your jobs run quicker.
If your file aren’t formatted with a number you can use this workaround.
Glob the filenames you want to run operations on from whatever directory
Create var NUMFILES which will be the length of the submitted array job
Create a variable in your script that references an array value using $SLURM_ARRAY_TASK_ID as an index