About Batch and Array Jobs

Watch this 11.5-minute video clip on SLURM batch jobs, and a useful variant of the batch job called an array job. A batch job runs a task unattended, and an array job runs multiple tasks unattended.

Array jobs handle the scheduling themselves. Array jobs are an alternative to:

Manually starting each subject,
Using a for loop,
Listing multiple entries after --participant_label in the BIDS command.

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Video Table of contents

● 00:10 Example Batch job
● 01:53 Batch Array job: The Problem
● 05:57 Batch Array job: The Solution
● 07:14 sbatchr
● 10:23 summary

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