Platform LSF Running Jobs Version 6.2

Running Jobs with Platform LSF
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Contents
Welcome . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
About This Guide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Learn About Platform Products . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Get Technical Support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
1 About Platform LSF . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Cluster Concepts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Job Life Cycle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
2 Working with Jobs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Submitting Jobs (bsub) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Modifying a Submitted Job (bmod) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Modifying Pending Jobs (bmod) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Modifying Running Jobs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Controlling Jobs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Killing Jobs (bkill) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Suspending and Resuming Jobs (bstop and bresume) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Changing Job Order Within Queues (bbot and btop) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Controlling Jobs in Job Groups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Submitting a Job to Specific Hosts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Submitting a Job and Indicating Host Preference . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Using LSF with Non-Shared File Space . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Reserving Resources for Jobs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Submitting a Job with Start or Termination Times . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
3 Viewing Information About Jobs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Viewing Job Information (bjobs) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Viewing Job Pend and Suspend Reasons (bjobs -p) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Viewing Detailed Job Information (bjobs -l) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Viewing Job Resource Usage (bjobs -l) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Viewing Job History (bhist) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Viewing Job Output (bpeek) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Viewing Information about SLAs and Service Classes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58