HP XC System Software Release Notes for Version 2.1

8
Load Sharing Facility and Job Management
Notes
This chapter contains notes about the following topics
• Load Sharing Facility (LSF) (Section 8.1)
• Job management with SLURM (Section 8.2)
8.1 LSF
The Load Sharing Facility (LSF), developed by Platform Computing, is available for
use in this release. This version of LSF HPC has been integrated with the SLURM
functionality in order to couple LSF’s extensive scheduling tools with SLURM’s
parallel job-launching facilities into a single comprehensive job management
environment on the XC system.
8.1.1 LSF Always Runs on the Head Node
LSF always runs on the head node, by default, even if the resource management
role is assigned to a different node.
Use the following command to relocate LSF to a different node if the node has been
assigned the resource management role:
# controllsf set primary node_name
8.2 Job Management
At the time of publication, there are no notes that apply to the Simple Linux Utility
for Resource Management (SLURM). SLURM provides commands for launching,
monitoring, and controlling jobs.
Refer to the HP XC System Software User’s Guide for more information about
using SLURM.
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