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 If the directory of your output/error file (''#SBATCH -o/-e'') does not exist, Slurm can not create the output file and the job crashes. But now Slurm has no way of telling you what went wrong, as it can't write errors anywhere, which results in these silent crashes. If the directory of your output/error file (''#SBATCH -o/-e'') does not exist, Slurm can not create the output file and the job crashes. But now Slurm has no way of telling you what went wrong, as it can't write errors anywhere, which results in these silent crashes.
  
-This is especially frequent when using /scratch as your work directory. Your directory structure may exist on one of the scratch file system, but not on the other. So if you do not specify ''#SBATCH -C scratch[2]'', you may end up on the wrong file system and the error above happens. Keep in mind that the file system on frontend-fas (aka gwdu103), is scratch2, not scratch.+This is especially frequent when using /scratch as your work directory. Your directory structure may exist on one of the scratch file system, but not on the other. So if you do not specify ''#SBATCH -C scratch[2]'', you may end up on the wrong file system and the error above happens.
  
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