Managing IBM
Spectrum LSF job
execution
Learn how to manage your LSF jobs and job scheduling policies. View job information,
control jobs, and manage job dependencies, job priorities, job arrays, interactive jobs, job
pre-execution and post-execution, and job starters.
Managing job execution
Learn about LSF job states, how to view information about your jobs, and control job execution by suspending, resuming, stopping, and signaling jobs.
Job file spooling
LSF enables spooling of job input, output, and command files by creating directories and files for buffering input and output for a job. LSF removes these files when the job completes.
Job data management
LSF provides different options to manage job data.
Job scheduling and dispatch
Learn how jobs are scheduled and dispatched to hosts for execution.
Control job execution
Use resource usage limits to control how much resource can be consumed by running jobs. Automatically suspend jobs based on the load conditions on the execution hosts. Use pre- and post-execution processing to run commands on an execution host before and after completion of a job. Use job starters to set up the runtime environment for a job. Job submission and execution controls use external, site-specific executable files to validate, modify, and reject jobs, transfer data, and modify the job execution environment.
Interactive jobs and remote tasks
Run interactive jobs with the bsub -I , bsub -Is , and bsub -Ip commands to take advantage of batch scheduling policies and host selection features for resource-intensive jobs. Run tasks interactively and remotely with non-batch utilities such as lsrun and lsgrun .