LSF Version 7.3 - Using Platform LSF HPC

Using LSF with MSC Nastran
MSC Nastran Version 70.7.2 (“Nastran”) runs in a Distributed Parallel mode, and
automatically detects a job launched by LSF, and transparently accepts the execution
host information from LSF.
The Nastran application checks if the LSB_HOSTS or LSB_MCPU_HOSTS
environment variable is set in the execution environment. If either is set, Nastran uses
the value of the environment variable to produce a list of execution nodes for the solver
command line. Users can override the hosts chosen by LSF to specify their own host list.
◆ Platform LSF
◆ Nastran version 70.7.2 and higher, available from MSC Software
Configuring LSF for Nastran jobs
During installation, lsfinstall adds the Boolean resource nastran to the Resource
section of
lsf.shared.
No additional executable files are needed.
If only some of your hosts can accept Nastran 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
nastran resource to the hosts that can run Nastran jobs:
Begin Host
HOSTNAME model type server r1m mem swp RESOURCES
...
hostA ! ! 1 3.5 () () ()
hostB ! ! 1 3.5 () () (nastran)
hostC ! ! 1 3.5 () () ()
...
End Host
Submitting Nastran jobs
Use bsub to submit the job, including parameters required for the Nastran command
line.
bsub -n num_processors [-R nastran] bsub_options
nastran_command
◆ -n num_processors
Number of processors required to run the job
◆ -R nastran
Optional. Specify the nastran shared resource if the Nastran application is only
installed on certain hosts in the cluster.
You must set the Nastran dmp variable to the same number as the number of processors
the job is requesting (
-n option of bsub).
◆ Parallel job through LSF requesting 4 processors:
% bsub -n 4 -a nastran -R "nastran" nastran example dmp=4