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Start time

The start time is dictated by the job's priority. One can use the following command to get an estimate of when a job will start: 

squeue -o "%.12i %.24S"  --state=PD -u $USER
Unfortunately, this is extremely unreliable.

The queue is dynamic, some factors that change this estimate are:

  • Submission of higher priority jobs than yours.
  • Jobs usually do not run for all the time they requested.
  • Changes in the number of nodes. Nodes can be taken online/offline.

Some very low priority jobs may not even display an estimated start time.