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About IBM Spectrum LSF

  • LSF clusters, jobs, and queues
  • Hosts
  • LSF daemons
  • Batch jobs and tasks
  • Host types and host models
  • Users and administrators
  • Resources
  • Job lifecycle

Working with jobs

  • Submitting jobs (bsub)
    • Submit a job
      • About submitting a job to a specific queue
      • View available queues
      • Submit a job to a queue
      • Submit a job associated with a project (bsub -P)
      • Submit a job associated with a user group (bsub -G)
      • Submit a job with a job name (bsub -J)
      • Submit a job to a service class (bsub -sla)
      • Submit a job under a job group (bsub -g)
      • Submit a job with a JSON file (bsub -json)
      • Submit a job with a YAML file (bsub -yaml)
      • Submit a job with a JSDL file (bsub -jsdl)
  • Modify pending jobs (bmod)
  • Modify running jobs
  • About controlling jobs
    • Kill a job (bkill)
      • Forcing removal of a job from LSF
    • About suspending and resuming jobs (bstop and bresume)
    • Move a job to the bottom of a queue (bbot)
    • Move a job to the top of a queue (btop)
    • Control jobs in job groups
    • Submit a job to specific hosts
    • Submit a job with specific resources
    • Queues and host preference
    • Specify different levels of host preference
    • Submit a job with resource requirements
    • Submit a job with SSH X11 forwarding
  • Using LSF with non-shared file space
    • Operator
  • About resource reservation
    • View resource information
    • Submit a job with resource requirements
    • Submit a job with start or termination times
    • Submit a job with compute unit resource requirements
  • Set pending time limits

Monitoring jobs

  • View information about jobs
    • View unfinished jobs
    • View summary information of unfinished jobs
    • View all jobs
    • View running jobs
    • View pending reasons for jobs
    • View job suspending reasons
    • View detailed job information
    • View job group information
    • Monitor SLA progress
    • View job output
    • View chronological history of jobs
    • View history of jobs not listed in active event log
    • View job history
    • View the job submission environment
    • Update interval
    • Job-level information
  • Display resource allocation limits
    • View information about resource allocation limits