turm – interface for the Slurm Workload Manager

Last Updated on February 20, 2026

turm is a text-based user interface (TUI) for the Slurm Workload Manager, which provides a convenient way to manage your cluster jobs.

turm obtains information about jobs by parsing the output of squeue. The reason for this is that squeue is available on all Slurm clusters, and running it periodically is not too expensive for the Slurm controller (particularly when filtering by user). In contrast, Slurm’s C API is unstable, and Slurm’s REST API is not always available and can be costly for the Slurm controller. Another advantage is that we get free support for the exact same CLI flags as squeue, which users are already familiar with, for filtering and sorting the jobs.

This is free and open source software.

Website: github.com/karimknaebel/turm
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Developer: Karim Abou Zeid
License: MIT License

turm is written in Rust. Learn Rust with our recommended free books and free tutorials.

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