Platform LSF Administration Guide Version 6.2

Administering Platform LSF
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Running Parallel Jobs
Contents
◆ “How LSF Runs Parallel Jobs” on page 428
◆ “Preparing Your Environment to Submit Parallel Jobs to LSF” on page 429
◆ “Submitting Parallel Jobs” on page 430
◆ “Starting Parallel Tasks with LSF Utilities” on page 431
◆ “Job Slot Limits For Parallel Jobs” on page 432
◆ “Specifying a Minimum and Maximum Number of Processors” on page 433
◆ “Specifying a Mandatory First Execution Host” on page 434
◆ “Controlling Processor Allocation Across Hosts” on page 436
◆ “Running Parallel Processes on Homogeneous Hosts” on page 439
◆ “Using LSF Make to Run Parallel Jobs” on page 441
◆ “Limiting the Number of Processors Allocated” on page 442
◆ “Reserving Processors” on page 445
◆ “Reserving Memory for Pending Parallel Jobs” on page 447
◆ “Allowing Jobs to Use Reserved Job Slots” on page 448
◆ “Parallel Fairshare” on page 455
◆ “How Deadline Constraint Scheduling Works For Parallel Jobs” on page 456
◆ “Optimized Preemption of Parallel Jobs” on page 457