Verifying Project-Based Accounting

One feature of LSF is project-based accounting--that is, individual jobs can be associated with particular projects and charges allocated accordingly. Projects can be specified in the following ways:

• with the bsub option, -P proj_name, where proj_name is the name of the project.

• with the environment variable LSB_DEFAULTPROJECT.

• with the parameter DEFAULT_PROJECT in the lsb.params file.

A new, optional configuration variable, CHECK_PROJECT_UGRPMEMBERSHIP, has been added to ensure the integrity of project-based accounting. To enable this feature, add the following line to the lsb.params file:

CHECK_PROJECT_UGRPMEMBERSHIP=y

When this entry is present in lsb.params, the software verifies that the person submitting the job is a member of the user group associated with proj_name. User groups are defined in the configuration file lsb.users. If the person submitting the job is not a member of the user group associated with that project, the job will be rejected.