This guide provides tutorial and reference information for users of the Load Sharing Facility (LSF) software. This guide is intended for end users of LSF and programmers who wish to create programs that use LSF features. Users should be familiar with executing commands in a UNIX or Windows NT environment.
LSF administrators should be familiar with the contents of this guide, along with the LSF Administrator's Guide.
The first two chapters are an introduction to load sharing and LSF. Chapter 1 is an overview of the architecture and features of LSF. The information presented here is theory and background; you can skip this chapter if you are not interested. Chapter 2 shows you how to use the basic LSF features. If you have never used LSF before, this is the best place to start. The remaining chapters give more detailed descriptions of all LSF features and programs. These chapters are organized to be independent of each other; you only need to read those that cover topics of interest to you.
Chapter 3 describes the commands that allow you to examine the various attributes of the cluster.
Chapter 4 explains how LSF describes host resources and how resource requirement expressions can be used to select appropriate hosts.
Chapters 5 through 7 describe the LSF Batch system.
Chapter 8 describes interactive load sharing, while chapter 9 describes lstcsh, the load sharing command shell and chapter 10 describes lsmake, the load sharing parallel make.
Chapter 11 discusses checkpointing. Chapter 12 describes customizing LSF Batch. Chapter 13 describes LSF MultiCluster. Chapter 14 describes how LSF Batch operates with NQS.
Appendix A describes how to modify the xlsbatch menus while appendix B describes the new features of LSF version 3.0.
The LSF Administrator's Guide describes how to install and configure LSF, and how to manage LSF clusters.
The LSF Programmer's Guide describes how to write application programs using the LSF API.
The LSF User's Quick Reference provides a summary of user's commands and related information, while the LSF Administrator's Quick Reference provides a summary of administrator's commands and related information.
The LSF JobScheduler User's Guide describes production job scheduling, events, and calendars. LSF JobScheduler is a distributed Production Job Scheduling product---a separately licensed component of LSF.
The on-line manual pages contain detailed descriptions of all LSF commands, daemons, functions and configuration files. The lsfintro(1), lsbatch(1), lim(8), res(8), and mbatchd(8) manual pages include references to all other LSF-related manual pages.
The xlsmon, xlsbatch, and xlsadmin graphical user interface applications are documented with the on-line help available through the Help menu of each application.
If you need any technical assistance with LSF, please contact your reseller or the Technical Support Department at the following address:
LSF Technical Support
Platform Computing Corporation
5001 Yonge Street, Suite 1401
North York, Ontario
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Tel: +1 416 512 9587
Fax: +1 416 512 8976
Electronic mail: support@platform.com
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If you have any comments about this document, please send them to the address above to the attention of LSF Documentation, or send electronic mail to doc@platform.com.
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