Contents

User foundations

• LSF overview
  • LSF Introduction
  • Cluster components
    • LSF documentation
• Inside an LSF cluster
  • LSF daemons and processes
  • Cluster communication paths
  • Fault tolerance
  • Security
• Inside workload management
  • Job lifecycle
  • Job submission
  • Job scheduling and dispatch
  • Host selection
  • Job execution environment
• LSF with EGO enabled
  • EGO component overview
  • Resources
  • LSF resource sharing

Administrator foundations

• Cluster overview
  • Terms and Concepts
  • Cluster characteristics
  • File systems, directories, and files
    • Example directory structures
      • UNIX and Linux
      • Microsoft Windows
  • Important directories and configuration files
• Work with LSF
  • Start, stop, and reconfigure LSF
    • Setting up the LSF environment
    • Starting your cluster
    • Stopping your cluster
    • Reconfiguring your cluster
  • Check LSF status
    • Check cluster configuration
    • Check cluster status
    • Check LSF batch system configuration
    • Find out batch system status
  • Run jobs
    • Submit batch jobs
    • Display job status
    • Control job execution
    • Run interactive tasks
    • Integrate your applications with LSF
  • Manage users, hosts, and queues
    • Making your cluster available to users
    • Adding a host to your cluster
    • Removing a host from your cluster
    • Adding a queue
    • Removing a queue
  • Configure LSF startup
    • Allowing LSF administrators to start LSF daemons
    • Setting up automatic LSF startup
  • Manage software licenses and other shared resources
• Troubleshooting LSF problems
  • Solving common LSF problems
  • LSF error messages