Specify PAM as Job Starter

The JOB_STARTER parameter allows an LSF batch queue to pass job launching control over to a special job-starting procedure rather than launching the job itself. For Sun HPC applications, this job launching role is given to the Parallel Application Manager (PAM), which is a utility for starting and managing MPI jobs.

PAM should be specified as the job starter on all queues that will be used by Sun HPC jobs. To do this, simply edit the JOB_STARTER line in lsb.queues to read as follows:

JOB_STARTER=pam

When a Sun HPC job is submitted to a PAM-configured queue, the queue will start PAM running. PAM, in turn, will launch the Sun HPC job on the cluster.