Work should generally done on the scratch file system. Only the results that need to be kept after completion should be created on or copied to the home file system. More information on the file systems can be found here.

Lines which begin with #SBATCH contain control information for the queueing system. For the shell these are just comments and are ignored. You can also use an arbitrary scripting language (csh, ksh, Python, Perl, ...) as long as the syntax #SBATCH is a valid comment.

If you wish to submit a number of similar jobs, please use a job array.

Please note that only  <username>@zedat.fu-berlin.de will be accepted for the email address.  Other addresse will be replaced automatically by this.  This is intended to prevent a large number of mails created within a short time by the cluster and sent to an external provider leading to the provider blocking the FU.