This guide is designed to help managers, LSF cluster administrators and performance analysts use LSF Analyzer to perform accounting and chargeback functions, cluster performance analysis, capacity planning and forecasting.
This guide describes the use of LSF Analyzer. In it, you will find all the information you need to set up and use LSF Analyzer at your site. This guide assumes you have knowledge of common LSF system terminology.
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:
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.
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.
The following guides are available from Platform Computing Corporation:
LSF Installation Guide
LSF Batch Administrator's Guide
LSF Batch Administrator's Quick Reference
LSF Batch User's Guide
LSF Batch User's Quick Reference
LSF JobScheduler Administrator's Guide
LSF JobScheduler User's Guide
LSF Analyzer User's Guide
LSF Parallel User's Guide
LSF Programmer's Guide
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xlsbatch, xbmod, xbsub, xbalarms, xbcal, xlsjs, xlsadmin, and xanalyzer applications.
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
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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
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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.