====== How can I tell which account codes I can use and which partitions I can submit to? ======

The account codes you can use when submitting a job to Slurm are directly related to the HPC Projects you are a member of (see [[https://hpc.researchcomputing.ncl.ac.uk/projects/|My HPC Projects]]).

   * All HPC Projects that are:
      * **Active** and ...
      * You are a **member** of...
      * Grant you access to the ''_free'' partitions
   * Any HPC Projects that are:
      * **Active** and ...
      * **Funded** and ...
      * Have a **positive** balance and ...
      * You are a **member** of...
      * Grant you access to the ''_paid'' partitions

On Comet you can check which account codes you can use and which partitions they grant access to using the ``sacctmgr`` tool:

<code lang=bash>
[n123@cometlogin01(comet) ~]$ sacctmgr list associations where user=n123
   Cluster    Account       User  Partition     Share   Priority GrpJobs       GrpTRES GrpSubmit     GrpWall   GrpTRESMins MaxJobs       MaxTRES MaxTRESPerNode MaxSubmit     MaxWall   MaxTRESMins                  QOS   Def QOS GrpTRESRunMin 
---------- ---------- ---------- ---------- --------- ---------- ------- ------------- --------- ----------- ------------- ------- ------------- -------------- --------- ----------- ------------- -------------------- --------- ------------- 
     comet  allusers         n123                    1                                                                            0                                      0                                         normal                         
     comet  comet_proj1      n123 default_f+         1                                                                          512                                    256                                         normal                         
     comet  comet_proj1      n123 default_p+         1                                                                          512                                    256                                         normal                         
     comet  comet_proj1      n123 gpu-l_paid         1                                                                          512                                    256                                         normal                         
     comet  comet_proj1      n123 gpu-s_free         1                                                                          512                                    256                                         normal                         
     comet  comet_proj1      n123 gpu-s_paid         1                                                                          512                                    256                                         normal                         
     comet  comet_proj1      n123 interacti+         1                                                                          512                                    256                                         normal                         
     comet  comet_proj1      n123 interacti+         1                                                                          512                                    256                                         normal                         
     comet  comet_proj1      n123 interacti+         1                                                                          512                                    256                                         normal                         
     comet  comet_proj1      n123 interacti+         1                                                                          512                                    256                                         normal                         
     comet  comet_proj1      n123 interacti+         1                                                                          512                                    256                                         normal                         
     comet  comet_proj1      n123  long_free         1                                                                          512                                    256                                         normal                         
     comet  comet_proj1      n123  long_paid         1                                                                          512                                    256                                         normal                         
     comet  comet_proj1      n123 low-laten+         1                                                                          512                                    256                                         normal                         
     comet  comet_proj1      n123 short_free         1                                                                          512                                    256                                         normal                         
     comet  comet_proj1      n123 short_paid         1                                                                          512                                    256                                         normal
</code>

The example above shows that the user ''n123'' is associated with the ''allusers'' account (but which has no partition permissions) and the ''comet_proj1'' account which has permissions on all ''_paid'' and ''_free'' partitions.

<WRAP tip round>
You can use the ''-p'' option to ''sacctmgr'' to get a more easily parseable output, including complete account and partition names to work around the column width cut-off issue in the default ''sacctmgr'' output as above.

If any column in your output of ''sacctmgr'' is suffixed with ''+'', then it means that field is longer than can be displayed. Re-run it again with the ''-p'' flag to see the full output.
</WRAP>

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