For the impatient

1. login to allegro
2. copy your data, if necessary (allegro home)
3. submit job
4. check job

$ ssh allegro

$ MYSELF=$(whoami)
$ mkdir -p ~/myJob/bin 
# - - - on allegro copy data:
$ cp /nfs/home/$MYSELF/mydata/bin/a.out ~/myJob/bin
# OR
$ cp /nfs/storage/$MYSELF/mydata/bin/a.out ~/myJob/bin
# ... copy other data into the cluster ...
$ cat >myJob/bin/submit.sh <<END
#!/bin/bash
#SBATCH -J testjob 
#SBATCH -D /home/$MYSELF
# OR on scratch for more space
#SBATCH -D /data/scratch/$MYSELF
#SBATCH -o testjob.%j.out
#SBATCH --nodes=1
#SBATCH --cpus-per-task=1
#SBATCH --mem=10M
#SBATCH --time=00:30:00
#SBATCH --mail-type=end
#SBATCH --mail-user=<EMAIL ADDRESS> 

hostname
date

~/myJob/bin/a.out
END
$ sbatch ~/myJob/bin/submit.sh

$ squeue