Load Sharing Facility

LSF Suite 3.2.3 is a collection of resource-management products that provide distributed batch scheduling, load balancing, job execution, and job termination services across a network of computers. The LSF products required by Sun HPC ClusterTools 3.0 software are: LSF Base, LSF Batch, and LSF Parallel.

• LSF Base - Provides the fundamental services upon which LSF Batch and LSF Parallel depend. It supplies cluster configuration information as well as the up-to-date resource and load information needed for efficient job allocation. It also supports interactive job execution.

• LSF Batch - Performs batch job processing, load balancing, and policy-based resource allocation.

• LSF Parallel - Extends the LSF Base and Batch services with support for parallel jobs.