Installing LSF-HPC With SLURM Into an Existing Standard LSF Cluster

Contents
Introduction
Requirements ....................................................................................................................................... 5
HP XC Preparation
Ensure that LSF on HP XC is shut down ....................................................................................................... 7
Mount the LSF tree to XC........................................................................................................................... 7
Ensure that the XC resource_management nodes have an external connection ................................................. 8
Lower the firewall on the XC external network.......................................................................................... 8
Node-to-node communication................................................................................................................. 9
Setup the expected LSF environment........................................................................................................ 9
Set up the XC LSF startup script ............................................................................................................ 10
Completing the Preparation..................................................................................................................... 10
Installation of XC LSF
Perform Post-Installation Tasks .............................................................................................................. 12
Configuring the XC LSF alias................................................................................................................ 14
Starting LSF on XC.............................................................................................................................. 14
Sample running jobs........................................................................................................................... 15
Troubleshooting ................................................................................................................................. 16
Sample installation dialog ................................................................................................................... 17