LSF Workload Configuration

The following diagram depicts an LSF cluster configuration.

Figure 10-2. LSF Cluster Configuration

The submission host computer is the node where the user, or operator, submits the task to be performed. Typically, user accounts, established for these computers, grant the user permission to write data files on the execution host's storage. There is nothing special about being a submission host, since any node in the cluster can submit jobs. In fact, jobs can be submitted by computers outside the cluster by invoking an xterm session on one of the cluster nodes, or by using the Motif based tool provided with the LSF software. ...

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