View available queues and queue status

Run bqueues. You can view the current status of a particular queue or all queues. The bqueues command also displays available queues in the cluster.
bqueuesQUEUE_NAME   PRIO  STATUS        MAX JL/U JL/P JL/H NJOBS  PEND  RUN  SUSP interactive  400   Open:Active   ‑   ‑    ‑    ‑    2      0     2    0 priority     43    Open:Active   ‑   ‑    ‑    ‑    16     4     11   1 night        40    Open:Inactive ‑   ‑    ‑    ‑    4      4     0    0 short        35    Open:Active   ‑   ‑    ‑    ‑    6      1     5    0 license      33    Open:Active   ‑   ‑    ‑    ‑    0      0     0    0 normal       30    Open:Active   ‑   ‑    ‑    ‑    0      0     0    0 idle         20    Open:Active   ‑   ‑    ‑    ‑    6      3     1    2

A dash (-) in any entry means that the column does not apply to the row. In this example no queues have per-queue, per-user, per-processor, or per host job limits configured, so the MAX, JL/U, JL/P, and JL/H entries are shown as a dash.

Job slots required by parallel jobs

Important:

A parallel job with N components requires N job slots.