qdrop

Release the resource of one or more vQPUs.

The qdrop command is used to terminate (drop) virtual QPUs previously deployed with qraise. Targets can be specified either by their Slurm job IDs, by a family name, or by dropping all active qraise jobs.

Synopsis

qdrop [IDS...] [OPTIONS]

Options

Target selection options

IDS...: Slurm IDs of the QPUs to be dropped. Multiple IDs can be given at a time.
--family <string>: Family name of the QPUs to be dropped. Multiple family names can be given at a time.
--all: Drop all qraise jobs.
--rm, --remove_logs: Also delete the qraise_XXXXXX log files of the dropped jobs from the current directory.

Basic usage

Command that relinquish all deployed vQPUs:

qdrop --all

Notes

Exactly one target selector must be used: either IDS..., or --family, or --all. Combining IDS... with --family is not allowed and results in an error.
Dropping QPUs will terminate the associated jobs and free the allocated resources.