Command Reference Guide

Platform LSF Command Reference 283
Task startup for LSF HPC generic PJL jobs
For parallel jobs submitted with bsub:
◆ PAM invokes the PJL, which in turn invokes the TaskStarter (TS).
◆ TS starts the tasks on each execution host, reports the process ID to PAM, and
waits for the task to finish.
Options
Options for vendor MPI jobs
-auto_place The -auto_place option on the pam command line tells the SGI IRIX mpirun
library to launch the MPI application according to the resources allocated by LSF.
-mpi In the SGI environment, the -mpi option on the bsub and pam command line is
equivalent to the
mpirun command.
On HP-UX, you can have LSF manage the allocation of hosts to achieve better
resource utilization by coordinating the start-up phase with
mpirun. This is done
by preceding the regular HP MPI
mpirun command with:
bsub pam -mpi
For HP-UX vendor MPI jobs, the -mpi option must be the first option of the pam
command.
For example, to run a single-host job and have LSF select the host, the command:
mpirun -np 14 a.out
is entered as:
bsub pam -mpi mpirun -np 14 a.out
-n num_tasks The number of processors required to run the MPI application, typically the
number of parallel tasks in the job. If the host is a multiprocessor, one host can start
several tasks.
You can us e both
bsub -n and pam -n in the same job submission. The number
specified in the
pam -n option should be less than or equal to the number specified
by
bsub -n. If the number of tasks specified with pam -n is greater than the
number specified by
bsub -n, the pam -n is ignored.
For example, on SGI IRIX or SGI Altix, you can specify:
bsub -n 5 pam -n 2 -mpi -auto_place a.out
Here, the job requests 5 processors, but PAM only starts 2 parallel tasks.
mpi_app [argument ...]
The name of the MPI application to be run on the listed hosts. This must be the last
argument on the command line.
-h Prints command usage to stderr and exit.
-V Prints LSF release version to stderr and exit.