LSF Version 7.3 - Using Platform LSF HPC

◆ Single-user—Your user account must be primary LSF administrator. You will be
able to start LSF daemons, but only your user account can submit jobs to the cluster.
Your user account must be able to read the system kernel information, such as
/dev/kmem.
To run IBM POE jobs, you must manually change the ownership and setuid bit for
swtbl_api and ntbl_api to root, and the file permission mode to
-rwsr-xr-x (4755) so that the user ID bit for the owner is setuid.
Use the following commands to set the correct owner, user ID bit, and file
permission mode:
# chown root swtbl_api ntbl_api
# chmod 4755 swtbl_api ntbl_api
◆ Multi-user—By default, only root can start the LSF daemons. Any user can submit
jobs to your cluster. To make the cluster available to other users, you must manually
change the ownership and setuid bit for
lsadmin and badmin to root, and the file
permission mode to
-rwsr-xr-x (4755) so that the user ID bit for the owner is
setuid.
Use the following commands to set the correct owner, user ID bit, and file
permission mode for a multi-user cluster:
# chown root lsadmin badmin eauth swtbl_api ntbl_api
# chmod 4755 lsadmin badmin eauth swtbl_api ntbl_api
Run hostsetup
◆ For SGI IRIX, TRIX, and Altix cpuset hosts, hostsetup adds the cpuset
Boolean resource to the HOSTS section of
lsf.cluster. cluster_name for
each cpuset host.
◆ For HP-UX pset hosts, hostsetup adds the pset Boolean resource to the
HOSTS section of
lsf.cluster. cluster_name for each pset host.
◆ For Linux QsNet hosts, hostsetup:
❖ Configures lsf.cluster. cluster_name to assign the Boolean resource
rms defined in lsf.shared to all LSF hosts that run on an RMS partition
❖ Creates a table named lsfrids in the RMS database. This table is used
internally by LSF
Use the --boot="y" option on hostsetup to configure system scripts to
automatically start and stop LSF daemons at system startup or shutdown. You must run
hostsetup as root to use this option to modify the system scripts. The default is
--boot="n".
For complete
hostsetup usage, enter hostsetup -h.
Log on to each LSF server host as root. Start with the LSF master host.
Run hostsetup on each LSF server host. For example:
# cd /usr/share/hpc/7.0/install
# ./hostsetup --top="/usr/share/hpc" --boot="y"