LSF Version 7.3 - Platform LSF Configuration Reference

Description
Used to start applications that use both OpenMP and MPI.
Valid values
unique
Default
Not defined
Notes
At job submission, LSF reserves the correct number of processors and PAM starts only 1
process per host. For example, to reserve 32 processors and run on 4 processes per host,
resulting in the use of 8 hosts:
bsub -n 32 -R "span[ptile=4]" pam yourOpenMPJob
Where defined
This parameter can alternatively be set as an environment variable. For example:
setenv LSF_PAM_HOSTLIST_USE unique
LSF_PAM_PLUGINDIR
Syntax
LSF_PAM_PLUGINDIR=path
Description
The path to libpamvcl.so. Used with Platform LSF HPC.
Default
Path to LSF_LIBDIR
LSF_PAM_USE_ASH
Syntax
LSF_PAM_USE_ASH=y | Y
Description
Enables LSF to use the SGI IRIX Array Session Handles (ASH) to propagate signals to the
parallel jobs.
See the IRIX system documentation and the array_session(5) man page for more
information about array sessions.
Default
Not defined
lsf.conf
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