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LSF, aka Load Sharing Facility is software that executes batch jobs on networked Unix and Windows systems on many different architectures. It is commonly used in HPC Clusters in many universities and research centers around the world.

The Load Sharing Facility or LSF is a set of tools for distributing jobs across a set of networked systems. If was developed initially by the Platform Computing company, which was acquired by IBM in 2012. It is now called IBM Spectrum LSF

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Perl system(), exec() and interactions with LSF

I have a script that has to kick off 2 independent processes, and wait until one of them finishes before continuing. Up to now, I've run it by creating one process with an if fork pid == 0, exec, else wait. The other one is created using system and…
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LSF bsub waiting with variable

I have an issue to saye for the job1 to wait job2 dynamically wiht variable name in LSF,here is my code #!/bin/bash JOB1=first JOB2=second bsub -I -q reg -J $JOB1 "ls /bin*" & bsub -I -q reg -w 'done("$JOB1")' -J $JOB2 ls /usr/ &"
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Meaning of jStatus log values in LSF

Am currently trying to decipher the contents of the lsb.events log file, as created by Platform Computing "Platform Process Manager" (Flow Manager), version 8.1. From the various sources of documentation I see the following descriptions for the…
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Batch script for LSF when only one MPI process among the others has 2 or more threads

My program uses MPI+pthreads, where n-1 MPI processes are pure MPI code whereas the only one MPI process uses pthreads. The last process contains only 2 threads( main thread and pthread ). Suppose that the HPC cluster I want to run this program on…
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How to retrieve the lsf queue parameter from an xterm

Let's say I have launched tons of xterm in different queues. Now they all clutter my screen and I have lost which one is which. I want to stick the LSF job-ID and the requested machine memory resource into the xterm header bar. (I know I can do that…
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call bash function with bsub lsf within bash script

I have a bash function i would like to bsub. It is recursively called when i try to source the script, but if i don't source the script it doesn't seem to recognize my function. How do I correctly call besub on a function within the same script…
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sge qstat name of the default queue?

After reading the qstat and sge_qstat manuals, I still don't know what method I could use that will allow me to programmatically parse the name of the default queue in my SGE 6.1 system: this is to say, the name of the queue where jobs would be…
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LSF Job Routing Algorithm

I have a requirement where i need to restrict users into reusing the first 3 exec machine they are using so as to reduce license usage of our tools. So, lets say that at any instant an user is using 3 machine - mac1,mac2,mac3. Now if he is going to…
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Ask LSF to allocate immediately

How to ask LSF to immediately allocate/execute my job without any wait ? I ve few timebound jobs and I want them to be executed immediately or killed immediately. Are there any way to do the same ?
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BatchJobs in R: serialization is too large to store in a raw vector

I am using the BatchJobs package. I have a list of data.table that I am trying to iterate over and submit jobs. However, i receive the following error message: batchMap(reg, function(dtb) dtb[,roll_reg(.SD),by=gvkey], dtb_input_list) Error:…
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How can I add to LSF Platform new users?

I scourged the web and the manual for the simple answer this question needs. If I create new users on my cluster, and if I check 'busers all', they don't appear. Thus, they cannot use 'bjobs', 'bhosts', etc... A little help would be so…
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LSF -- Giving multiple options for acceptable resource types?

I'm running some jobs on a cluster that uses the LSF batch scheduling tool. A typical batch request looks like this: bsub -q someQueue -R someResourceType /home/user/myProgram In the cluster that I'm using, there are approximately ten different…
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Bad resource requirement syntax Error

I am trying to use the memory resource allocation command available in LSF. A normal format of the command is : bsub -R "rusage [mem=1000]" sleep 100s When I launch this command directly from terminal,it works. When i lsunch this command from a…
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Writing a script which runs two LSF jobs back to back

I am trying to run two LSF jobs back to back with the help of a script. Can you please help me with that. Trying something like this -lsf -b / x.ckt And it should run x.ckt using simulator V1 and simulator v2
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splitting jobs with bsub command line

If the jobs are combined, LSF will only “look” for the needed resources for the first stage (compile) and launch the job since it doesn’t know about the simulation job at the end which needs various tokens. I need to split the jobs with bsub…
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