Manage your jobs¶

Jobs are managed on the web dashboard

Once you are logged in, you can check the progress of your jobs and manage your account.

The Jobs page¶

Each row on the jobs page represents a submission.

Column name	Description
JOB ID	A unique string to identify your job within your account.
USER	The user that submitted the job.
STATUS	The current status of the job.
PROJECT	The project that the job was submitted under.
TITLE	The title given to the job.
PRIORITY	A higher number will run before a lower number.
CORES	The number of cores on the render node selected for the job.
MEMORY	The amount of memory on the render node selected for the job.
PREEMPTIBLE	Whether the render node is preemptible.
PROGRESS	Shows a summary of the status of all the tasks.
TASKS	The number of tasks inside the job.
AVG. FRAME	The average time it took for each task to complete.
CREATED	The time the job was submitted/created.

A description of statuses in the Status column.

Status	Description
upload_pending	The job specification has been submitted but render data has yet to start uploading.
uploading	Render data is being transferred to cloud storage.
sync_pending	Deploying a high performance storage cluster for the render data.
sync_failed	Syncing to the high performance storage cluster failed. The job will remain in that state until a retry sync operation is requested by right-clicking on a job or task.
syncing	Render data is being copied from cloud storage to the high performance storage system.
pending	Render nodes are being herded and reserved for the job.
holding	The job or task is on hold, right-click to unhold.
running	The job has actively running tasks.
success	All tasks have rendered successfully.
downloaded	All successful tasks have been downloaded.
failed	At least one task has failed.
preempted	At least one task was preempted, use the retry option to automatically retry preempted tasks.

Once a job has been submitted it can be modified via the Web Dashboard.

Jobs can be selected by clicking on the row. Multiple rows can be selected using standard ctrl (command on OSX) and shift techniques.

Right-click on the selected rows to bring up the context menu with the following options:

Label	Description
Hold	Set tasks to a holding state.
Kill	Stop all tasks immediately.
Retry	Restart all tasks.
Retry Failed	Restart only failed tasks.
Retry Preempted	Restart only preempted tasks.
Retry Sync	Retry the syncing phase, where assets disks are attached to render nodes.
Reviewed	Mark a job as having been reviewed.
Unhold	Start tasks that are holding.
Edit / Instance Type	Run the job on a different type of render node. Only affects Tasks that have not yet run.
Edit / Priority	Change the job priority.

If you would like to see more details about what happens once you submit a job, please consult the diagram below.