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PBS job states

Explore the different job states in the Portable Batch System to understand how HPC job management tracks job progress, holds, suspensions, completions, and errors. This lesson helps you grasp key job lifecycle statuses to effectively manage jobs on HPC platforms.

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The table below describes the different job states through the life cycle of the job. There are some attributes that are only applicable when submitting jobs to an Enterprise PBS Professional complex.

Job State Description
B Job arrays only: job
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