LSF Version 7.3 - Using Platform LSF HPC

About Platform LSF and the Open MPI Library
The Open MPI Library is a high-performance message-passing library for developing
applications that can run on multiple cluster interconnects chosen by the user at
runtime. Open MPI supports all MPI-1 and MPI-2 features.
The LSF Open MPI integration is based on the LSF generic PJL framework. It supports
the LSF task geometry feature.
Requirements
❏ Open MPI version 1.1 or later
You should upgrade all your hosts to the same version of Open MPI.
Assumptions and limitations
◆ Open MPI is installed and configured correctly
◆ The user-defined -app file option is not supported
Glossary
Multi-Purpose Daemon (MPD) job startup mechanism
(Message Passing Interface) A message passing standard. It defines a message passing
API useful for parallel and distributed applications.
A portable implementation of the MPI standard.
An MPI implementation for platforms such as clusters, SMPs, and massively parallel
processors.
(Parallel Application Manager) The supervisor of any parallel job.
(Parallel Job Launcher) Any executable script or binary capable of starting parallel tasks
on all hosts assigned for a parallel job.
(Remote Execution Server) An LSF daemon residing on each host. It monitors and
manages all LSF tasks on the host.
(TaskStarter) An executable responsible for starting a task on the local host and
reporting the process ID and host name to the PAM.
For more information
◆ See the Open MPI Project web page at http://www.open-mpi.org/
Files installed by lsfinstall
During installation, lsfinstall copies these files to the following directories
TaskStarter LSF_BINDIR
pam LSF_BINDIR
esub.openmpi LSF_SERVERDIR
openmpi_wrapper LSF_BINDIR