The LSF Parallel User's Guide describes how to compile and link, execute, interact and monitor parallel applications submitted through the LSF Suite of products.
For the most part, this guide does not repeat information that is available in detail elsewhere but focuses on what is specific to using the Platform Computing Corporation LSF Parallel system. References to more general sources are provided in Related Publications on page ix in this preface.
This preface discusses the following topics:
This guide provides reference and tutorial material for:
The users of this guide are expected to be familiar with:
This guide focuses on using parallel applications with the LSF Suite of products, primarily the LSF Batch system. It assumes familiarity with the LSF Suite of products and the MPI standard. The following materials provide useful background about using the LSF Suite of products and MPI.
These guides are available from Platform Computing Corporation:
This document is available on the World Wide Web:
MPI: A Message-Passing Interface Standard, Message Passing Interface Forum (University of Tennessee, 1995)
http://www.mcs.anl.gov/mpi/mpi-report-1.1/mpi-report.html
These books should be available at your local bookstore:
MPI: The Complete Reference, by Marc Snir, Steve W. Otto, Steven Huss-Lederman, David W. Walker, and Jack Dongarra (MIT Press, 1995)
Using MPI, by William Gropp, Ewing Lusk and Anthony Skjellum (MIT Press, 1994)
Parallel Programming with MPI, by Peter Pacheco (Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, Inc., 1997)
Designing and Building Parallel Programs, Ian Foster (Addison-Wesley, 1995)
Online documentation supplied by Platform Computing Corporation:
Man pages (accessed with the man command) for all commands and MPI functions.
The names of commands, files, and directories; on-screen computer output | |
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 scheduling application that integrates heterogeneous servers into a virtual mainframe or virtual super computer.
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 network 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.
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