# Issues with machinefile and SLURM

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/issues-with-machinefile-and-slurm/7882>\
**Category:** Julia at Scale\
**Created:** [December 20, 2017, 4:47pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/issues-with-machinefile-and-slurm/7882 "2017-12-20T16:47:55Z")\
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Using `srun` should be fine since that is the correct way of starting a job.

The workflow should work something like this:

```julia
salloc | sbatch # create resources.
julia> addprocs(SlurmManager(2)) # SlurmManager should inherit the outside allocation.

```

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