Resource Management

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Chapter 10. Load Sharing Facility Software

The Load Sharing Facility (LSF) software enables you to execute batch and interactive jobs on a pool of networked computers. The Sun Microsystems High Performance Computing (HPC) package includes LSF as a vehicle for launching parallel applications on an HPC cluster. Besides starting batch jobs, LSF also provides load balancing by determining which computer possesses the optimum resources on which to run the jobs.

This chapter explains how to deploy LSF as a resource management tool and how it interoperates with other Solaris resource management controls.

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