LSF Version 7.3 - Using Platform LSF HPC

Using LSF with NCBI BLAST
LSF accepts jobs running NCBI BLAST (Basic Local Alignment Search Tool).
◆ Platform LSF
◆ BLAST, available from the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI)
Configuring LSF for BLAST jobs
During installation, lsfinstall adds the Boolean resource blast to the Resource
section of
lsf.shared.
If only some of your hosts can accept BLAST jobs, configure the Host section of
lsf.cluster. cluster_name to identify those hosts.
Edit
LSF_ENVDIR/conf/lsf.cluster.cluster_name file and add the blast
resource to the hosts that can run BLAST jobs:
Begin Host
HOSTNAME model type server r1m mem swp RESOURCES
...
hostA ! ! 1 3.5 () () ()
hostB ! ! 1 3.5 () () (blast)
hostC ! ! 1 3.5 () () ()
...
End Host
Submitting BLAST jobs
Use BLAST parallel provided with LSF to submit BLAST jobs.
BLAST parallel is a PERL program that distributes BLAST searches across a cluster by
splitting both the query file and the reference database and merging the result files after
all BLAST jobs finish.
See the README in the
LSF_MISC/examples/blastparallel/ for information
about installing, configuring, and using BLAST parallel.