Contents

Audience

LSF Suite 3.2

LSF Enterprise Edition

LSF Standard Edition

Related Documents

Online Documentation

Technical Assistance

What is LSF?

LSF Features

Host Resources

Batch Processing

Interactive Processing

Clusters

Fault Tolerance

Structure of LSF Base

Load Information Manager

Remote Execution Server

LSF API

LSF Utility Programs

Applications

Structure of LSF Batch

Getting Cluster Information

Displaying the Cluster and Master Names

Displaying Available Resources

Getting Host Information

Displaying Static Host Information

Displaying Load Information

Running Jobs

Running Jobs on Remote Hosts

Load Sharing Commands With lstcsh

Parallel Processing With LSF Make

Listing Hosts

Submitting a Job

Selecting a Job Queue

Tracking Batch Jobs

xbsub and xlsbatch GUI Applications

Finding the Master

Listing Resources

Listing Hosts

Displaying the Load

Graphical Load Display

Introduction to Resources

Load Indices

Static Resources

Shared Resources

Boolean Resources

Listing Resources

Resource Requirement Strings

Selection String

Order String

Resource Usage String

Job Spanning String

Specifying Shared Resources

Configuring Resource Requirements

Remote Task List File

Managing Your Task List

Using Resource Requirements

Batch Jobs

Fairshare Scheduling Policy

Host Partition Fairshare Scheduling

Queue-Level Fairshare Scheduling

Hierarchical Fairshare

Other Scheduling Policies

Preemptive Scheduling

Exclusive Scheduling

Processor Reservation

Backfill Scheduling

Scheduling Parameters

Load Thresholds

Scheduling Conditions

Time Windows for Queues and Hosts

Run Windows

Dispatch Windows

Batch Queues

Finding Out What Queues Are Available

Detailed Queue Information

Automatic Queue Selection

Specifying Default Queues

Queue Selection Mechanism

Choosing a Queue

Batch Users

Batch Hosts

User and Host Groups

Viewing Hierarchical Share Information

Queue-Level Job Starters

Configuration Parameters

User Controlled Account Mapping

Input and Output

Resource Requirements

Resource Reservation

Host Selection

Host Preference

Resource Limits

Pre-Execution Commands

Job Dependencies

Job Dependency Examples

Remote File Access

Start and Termination Time

Parallel Jobs

Minimum and Maximum Number of Processors

Specifying Locality

Job Arrays

Creating a Job Array

LSB_JOBINDEX Environment Variable

Array Job Dependencies

Handling Input/Output/Error Files for Job Arrays

Specifying a Share Account

Re-initializing Job Environment on the Execution Host

Other bsub Options

Job Scripts

Embedded Submission Options

Running a Job Under a Particular Shell

Submitting Jobs Using the Job Submission GUI

Displaying Job Status

Finding Pending or Suspension Reasons

Monitoring Resource Consumption of Jobs

Displaying Job History

Viewing Chronological History

Checking Partial Job Output

Tracking Job Arrays

Displaying Queue and Host Status

Job Controls

Killing Jobs

Suspending and Resuming Jobs

Controlling Job Arrays

Sending an Arbitrary Signal to a Job

Moving Jobs Within and Between Queues

Job Modification

Submitted Job Modification

Dispatched Job Modification

Job Array Modification

Job Tracking and Manipulation Using the GUI

Shared Files and User IDs

Running Remote Jobs with lsrun

Running Parallel Jobs with lsgrun

Load Sharing Interactive Sessions

Load Sharing Login

Load Sharing X Sessions

Command-Level Job Starters

Interactive Batch Job Support

Shell Mode for Remote Execution

Starting lstcsh

Using lstcsh as Your Login Shell

Automatic Remote Execution

Host Redirection

Job Control

Built-in Commands

The lsmode Command

The connect Command

Modes of Operation

Differences from Other Shells

Writing Shell Scripts in lstcsh

Limitations

Parallel Execution

Invoking LSF Make

Specifying the Number of Processors

File Server Load

Tuning Your Makefile

Building in Subdirectories

Running lsmake as a Batch Job

Differences from Other Versions of make

Approaches to Checkpointing

Kernel-level Checkpointing

User-level Checkpointing

Application-level Checkpointing

Checkpoint Directory

Uniform Checkpointing Interface

The echkpnt Command

The erestart Command

Submitting Checkpointable Jobs

Checkpointing a Job

Restarting a Checkpointed Job

Job Migration

Queues and Hosts for Automatic Job Migration

Automatically Rerunning and Restarting Jobs

Submitting a Job for Automatic Migration

Building Checkpointable Jobs

The Checkpoint Library

The Checkpoint Startup Routine

Linking

Limitations

Environment Variables

Parallel Jobs

Getting the Host List

Starting Parallel Tasks With lstools

Using LSF Make to Run Parallel Batch Jobs

Submitting PVM Jobs to LSF Batch

Submitting MPI Jobs to LSF Batch

Submitting POE Jobs to LSF Batch

Using a Job Starter for Parallel Jobs

What is LSF MultiCluster?

Getting Remote Cluster Information

Running Batch Jobs across Clusters

Running Interactive Jobs on Remote Clusters

User-Level Account Mapping Between Clusters

Choosing an LSF Batch Queue

Submitting a Job from LSF to NQS

Controlling Jobs Running on NQS

Forwarding of Output Files

Overview

Distribution

Frame Array Concepts

Submitting Frame Arrays

Tracking Frame Arrays

Controlling Frame Arrays

Overview

Distribution

Installing the queue-level job starter

Submitting Checkpointed Frame Arrays

Tracking Checkpointed Frame Arrays

Overview

Distribution

Configuring the Checkpointing Executable Files

Submitting the FLUENT Job

Checkpointing the FLUENT job

Restarting the FLUENT job