Administering Platform LSF

Learn how to configure and manage your cluster resources. Run, monitor, and control jobs. Configure scheduling policies to manage job scheduling and dispatch.

Platform LSF Foundations Guide

A high-level view of Platform LSF, its major components and how they work together.

Platform LSF Desktop Support Administrator's Guide

Learn how to configure and manage your desktop resources to run, monitor, and control LSF jobs.

Platform LSF Command Reference

Reference to LSF commands.

Platform LSF Security

Learn how to increase the security of your LSF cluster.

Platform LSF Configuration Reference

Learn about LSF features, files, events, and environment variables.

Running Jobs with Platform LSF

Run, monitor, and control your jobs submitted to LSF.

Platform LSF Quick Reference

Quick reference to LSF commands, daemons, configuration files, log files, and important cluster configuration parameters.

Using Platform License Scheduler

Install, configure and use Platform License Scheduler. Learn to make policies that control the way software licenses are shared among different users in your organization.

Using Platform MultiCluster

Learn how to use and manage the Platform MultiCluster to share resources across your Platform LSF clusters.

Using Platform LSF HPC Features

Install, configure and use Platform LSF HPC. Learn how to run and monitor parallel applications submitted through LSF HPC.

Using Platform LSF on Windows

Install, configure and use Platform LSF on Microsoft Windows.

Platform LSF Desktop Support User's Guide

Use Platform LSF Desktop Support to run and monitor jobs.

Platform LSF Programmer's Guide

Learn how to use the LSF API to take advantage of LSF's distributed resource management functionality in your own workload sharing applications.

Platform LSF API Reference

Comprehensive reference to LSF APIs.

Using the Platform LSF blaunch Framework

Installing Platform LSF on UNIX and Linux

Plan your installation and install a new production cluster on UNIX or Linux hosts.

Installing Platform LSF on Windows

Plan your installation and install a new production cluster on Microsoft Windows hosts.

Upgrading Platform LSF on UNIX and Linux

Upgrade a pre-version 7 UNIX or Linux cluster to LSF 8.

Upgrade an LSF 7 Update 2 through Update 6 UNIX or Linux cluster to LSF 8.

DO NOT use these steps to migrate an existing LSF 7 cluster or LSF 7 Update 1 cluster to LSF 8.

Migrating to Platform LSF Version 8 on UNIX and Linux

Migrate an existing LSF 7 cluster to LSF 8 on UNIX and Linux.

Migrate an existing LSF 7 Update 1 cluster to LSF 8 on UNIX and Linux.

DO NOT use these steps to upgrade an existing LSF 7 Update 2 through Update 6 cluster to LSF 8.

Migrating Platform LSF Version 7 to Platform LSF Version 8 on Windows

Migrate an existing LSF 7 Windows cluster to LSF 8 on Windows.

DO NOT use these steps to migrate a pre-version 7 Windows cluster to LSF 8 on Windows. Instead first migrate to LSF 7.