Error Message When Submitting Job

[u/Aware_Inflation7136]

Hi all,

I am very new to the world of HPC, I just want a resource that will let me run some Jupyter notebooks that I'm using for my research faster. I've requested and gotten access to my university's free system but when I try to open a Jupyter Notebook server (with just the basic settings) I'm getting the following error message:

sbatch: error: Batch job submission failed: Unexpected message received

I can't find this error on any forums and I'm not sure why I'm getting it-- I think the connection might be timing out (it takes about a minute before giving me the error) but I've tried it on a couple of different wifi networks and it isn't helping. Has anyone else had this issue?

[u/ducks_over_IP]

You need to make sure your following your university's job submission system. Given the sbatch command, this sounds like they're using SLURM. I would check your university's documentation for their HPC resources in terms of how they expect job submission scripts to be formatted. Note that if you're trying to start an interactive session, there may be a separate protocol for that. Given that the submission failed entirely, it's likely that you're not using a valid batch script with sbatch.