Running slurm script with multiple nodes, launch job steps with 1 task

Question

I am trying to launch a large number of job steps using a batch script. The different steps can be completely different programs and do need exactly one CPU each. First I tried

Answer 1

Found it! The nomenclature and the many command line options to slurm confused me. The solution is given by

#!/bin/bash
#SBATCH -o $HOME/slurm/slurm_out/%j.%N.out
#SBATCH --error=$HOME/slurm/slurm_out/%j.%N.err_out
#SBATCH --get-user-env
#SBATCH -J test
#SBATCH -D $HOME/slurm
#SBATCH --export=NONE
#SBATCH --ntasks=48

NR_PROCS=$(($SLURM_NTASKS))
for PROC in $(seq 0 $(($NR_PROCS-1)));
do
    #My call looks like this:
    #srun --exclusive -N1 -n1 bash $PROJECT/call_shells/call_"$PROC".sh &
    srun --exclusive -N1 -n1 hostname &
    pids[${PROC}]=$!    #Save PID of this background process
done
for pid in ${pids[*]};
do
    wait ${pid} #Wait on all PIDs, this returns 0 if ANY process fails
done

This specifies to run the job on exactly one node incorporating a single task only.