# Useful options

Here is a non exhaustive list of option you can use for your jobs:

| **Option full name** | **shortcut** | **Value** | **Descritpion**                                         |
| ---------------- | -------- | ----- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
||| <br>**Node selection**<br>
| --partition | -p | `ALL\|SCHOOL\|<CONTRIBUTOR>` | Choose a partition to run the job see [Queue and Priority](./queue_priority.md) |
| --account | -A | `<contributor>_group` | Use by contributor to access their priority partition see [Queue and Priority](./queue_priority.md) |
| --nodelist | -w | `watgpu108,watgpu208,...` | List of nodes the job can run in |
| --exclude | -x | `watgpu108,watgpu208,...` | List of job the job will not run in |
||| <br><br>**Resources selection**<br> |
| --gres | - | `gpu:1` or `gpu:<contributor>gpu` | Number of GPU for the job |
| --mem | - | '`10GB` | Amount of memory for the job |
| --cpus-per-task | -c | `1` | Number of CPU for the job |
| --constraint | -C | `ADA6000|L40S|Blackwell|H200` | Used in WATGPU to select the type of GPU to get |
||| <br><br>**Time constraint**<br> |
| --time | -t | `DD-HH:MM:SS` | Time limit for the job |
| --begin | - | `YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SS` | The job will not run before the specified date |
||| <br><br>**Logs and notifications**<br>
| --signal | - | `<sig_num>@<sig_time>` | When a job is within sig_time seconds of its end time, send it the signal sig_num |
| --output | -o | `<file/path>` | File to write the output of the job |
| --error | -e | `<file/path>` | If specified, the error output will be written in this file |
| --mail-user | - | `email@domain.com` | User email to receive notification |
| --mail-type | - | `NONE, BEGIN, END, FAIL, REQUEUE, ALL` also `TIME_LIMIT, TIME_LIMIT_90, TIME_LIMIT_80, TIME_LIMIT_50` | Type of notification to receive by email |