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Preface

Audience

In this book, you will find all the information you need to configure and maintain your LSF Base, LSF Batch, or LSF MultiCluster installation. This guide assumes you have knowledge of common system administration tasks such as exporting and mounting Network File System (NFS) partitions.

The focus of this guide is the administration of LSF Base, LSF Batch, and LSF MultiCluster, and as such is intended for LSF cluster administrators who manage LSF Base, LSF Batch, and LSF MultiCluster. Users who wish to understand the details of LSF operation should also read this guide.

It is assumed that you have already read the LSF Installation Guide and installed one or more products from the LSF Suite at your site.

LSF Suite 3.2

LSF is a suite of workload management products including the following:

LSF Batch is a batch job processing system for distributed and heterogeneous environments, which ensures optimal resource sharing.

LSF JobScheduler is a distributed production job scheduler that integrates heterogeneous servers into a virtual mainframe or virtual supercomputer

LSF MultiCluster supports resource sharing among multiple clusters of computers using LSF products, while maintaining resource ownership and cluster autonomy.

LSF Analyzer is a graphical tool for comprehensive workload data analysis. It processes cluster-wide job logs from LSF Batch and LSF JobScheduler to produce statistical reports on the usage of system resources by users on different hosts through various queues.

LSF Parallel is a software product that manages parallel job execution in a production networked environment.

LSF Make is a distributed and parallel Make based on GNU Make that simultaneously dispatches tasks to multiple hosts.

LSF Base is the software upon which all the other LSF products are based. It includes the network servers (LIM and RES), the LSF API, and load sharing tools.

There are two editions of the LSF Suite:

LSF Enterprise Edition

Platform's LSF Enterprise Edition provides a reliable, scalable means for organizations to schedule, analyze, and monitor their distributed workloads across heterogeneous UNIX and Windows NT computing environments. LSF Enterprise Edition includes all the features in LSF Standard Edition (LSF Base and LSF Batch), plus the benefits of LSF Analyzer and LSF MultiCluster.

LSF Standard Edition

The foundation for all LSF products, Platform's Standard Edition consists of two products, LSF Base and LSF Batch. LSF Standard Edition offers users robust load sharing and sophisticated batch scheduling across distributed UNIX and Windows NT computing environments.

Technical Assistance

If you need any technical assistance with LSF, please contact your reseller or Platform Computing's Technical Support Department at the following address:

LSF Technical Support
Platform Computing Corporation
3760 14th Avenue
Markham, Ontario
Canada L3R 3T7

Tel: +1 905 948 8448
Toll-free: 1-87PLATFORM (1-877-528-3676)
Fax: +1 905 948 9975
Electronic mail: support@platform.com

Please include the full name of your company.

You may find the answers you need from Platform Computing Corporation's home page on the World Wide Web. Point your browser to www.platform.com.

If you have any comments about this document, please send them to the attention of LSF Documentation at the address above, or send email to doc@platform.com.