sinfo only shows the current status (alloc, idle, etc) and a time limit of Slurm nodes.
squeue seems only to show the jobs submitted by a user themselves, but not the jobs submitted by other users.
Is there a way to know when the nodes allocated by other users would become available?
Is there a way to know when the nodes allocated by other users would become available?
The only reliable way would be to submit a job. Then Slurm can warn you by email with --mail-type=BEGIN.
Note that sbatch has a --test-only argument that tells you when your job would run if submitted, without actually submitting a job.
Also, srun has an --immediate argument that allows submitting and job and cancelling it if it does not get an allocation within a few seconds. sbatch has a similar parameter --deadline
Finally, if you need an interactive session and be available when the job starts, you can submit a job with --begin. For instance if you want to have an interactive session at the same time the next day, submit a job the day before (assuming reasonable job length) with --begin=now+24hours
