Platform LSF Reference Version 6.2

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Automatic detection of host model and type is useful because you no longer need to
make changes in the configuration files when you upgrade the operating system or
hardware of a host and reconfigure the cluster. LSF will automatically detect the change.
Mapping to CPU
factors
Automatically detected models are mapped to the short model names in lsf.shared
in the ARCHITECTURE column. Model strings in the ARCHITECTURE column are
only used for mapping to the short model names.
Example
lsf.shared file:
Begin HostModel
MODELNAME CPUFACTOR ARCHITECTURE
SparcU5 5.0 (SUNWUltra510_270_sparcv9)
PC486 2.0 (i486_33 i486_66)
PowerPC 3.0 (PowerPC12 PowerPC16 PowerPC31)
End HostModel
If an automatically detected host model cannot be matched with the short model name,
it is matched to the best partial match and a warning message is generated.
If a host model cannot be detected or is not supported, it is assigned the DEFAULT
model name and an error message is generated.
Naming convention
Models that are automatically detected are named according to the following
convention:
hardware_platform [_processor_speed[_processor_type]]
where:
hardware_platform is the only mandatory component
processor_speed is the optional clock speed and is used to differentiate computers
within a single platform
processor_type is the optional processor manufacturer used to differentiate
processors with the same speed
Underscores (_) between hardware_platform, processor_speed, processor_type are
mandatory.