Platform LSF Administration Guide Version 6.2

What’s New in Platform LSF Version 6.1
Administering Platform LSF
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What’s New in Platform LSF Version 6.1
◆ “Platform LSF”
❖ “High performing, open scalable architecture”
❖ “Comprehensive intelligent scheduling policies”
❖ “Reliability and usability”
◆ “Platform LSF License Scheduler”
❖ “Failover provisioning in LANs and WANs”
❖ “License ownership and distribution”
❖ “Administration and management”
◆ “Platform LSF Reports”
❖ “Administration and management”
❖ “Data collection”
◆ “Platform LSF Analytics”
❖ “Administration and management”
❖ “Data collection”
❖ “Database integration”
❖ “Out-of-box cubes”
◆ “Platform LSF Windows desktop support”
❖ “New operating system support”
❖ “Security enhancements”
❖ “Usability”
Platform LSF
High performing, open scalable architecture
◆ The primary focus of Platform LSF Version 6.1 is to enhance performance and
scalability:
❖ Faster user interactions for job submission and query
❖ Accelerated time to schedule and dispatch jobs
❖ Quicker reconfiguration of master failover for higher availability
◆ With an optimally tuned and configured environment, you can benefit from the
following enhancements:
❖ Up to 5,000 hosts per cluster
❖ 500,000 active jobs per cluster at any one time
❖ More concurrent users continuously executing Platform LSF commands
❖ 1 million completed jobs per day
❖ 40,000 active application licenses can be managed
◆ Dynamic addition of hosts to the cluster has been improved to include dynamic host
group membership. This shortens the time to add and remove hosts. The feature is
disabled by default.
To enable dynamic host configuration, you must define the following parameters:
❖ LSF_MASTER_LIST and LSF_DYNAMIC_HOST_WAIT_TIME in
lsf.conf