Chapter04 Run jobs¶

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Run, monitor, and control your jobs that are submitted to LSF.

About IBM Spectrum LSF¶

Clusters, jobs, and queues¶

The IBM Spectrum LSF ("LSF", short for load sharing facility) software is industry-leading enterprise-class software that distributes work across existing heterogeneous IT resources to create a shared, scalable, and fault-tolerant infrastructure, that delivers faster, balanced, more reliable workload performance and reduces cost.

Hosts¶

LSF daemons¶

Batch jobs and tasks¶

Host types and host models¶

Users and administrators¶

Resources¶

Job lifecycle¶

Working with jobs¶

Submitting jobs (bsub)¶

Modify pending jobs (bmod)¶

Modify running jobs¶

About controlling jobs¶

LSF controls jobs dispatched to a host to enforce scheduling policies or in response to user requests.

Using LSF with non-shared file space¶

About resource reservation¶

Set pending time limits¶

You can specify pending time limits and eligible pending time limits for jobs to ensure that jobs do not remain pending in LSF for too long.

Monitoring jobs¶

View information about jobs¶

Display resource allocation limits¶

Use the blimits command to display resource allocation limits.