IBM Spectrum LSF explained

LSF
Developer:	IBM (current) Platform Computing (former)
Latest Release Version:	10.1.0 (10.1.0.14^[1])
Latest Release Date:	June 2023
Operating System:	AIX, HP-UX, Linux, Windows, macOS, Solaris
Genre:	Job scheduler
License:	Proprietary
Website:	IBM Spectrum LSF

IBM Spectrum LSF (LSF, originally Platform Load Sharing Facility) is a workload management platform, job scheduler, for distributed high performance computing (HPC) by IBM.

Details

It can be used to execute batch jobs on networked Unix and Windows systems on many different architectures.^{[2] [3]} LSF was based on the Utopia research project at the University of Toronto.^[4]

In 2007, Platform released Platform Lava, which is a simplified version of LSF based on an old version of LSF release, licensed under GNU General Public License v2.^[5] The project was discontinued in 2011, succeeded by OpenLava.

In January, 2012, Platform Computing was acquired by IBM.^[6] The product is now called IBM Spectrum LSF.

IBM Spectrum LSF Community Edition is a no-charge community edition of the IBM Spectrum LSF workload management platform.

Also See

• Sun Grid Engine
• HTCondor

Notes and References

1. Web site: What's new in IBM Spectrum LSF Version 10.1 Fix Pack 14. . 2023-07-02.
2. Book: Oracle 10g Grid & Real Application Clusters . Mike Ault . Madhu Tumma . Rampant TechPress. 2004. 978-0-9744355-4-1. 24.
3. Web site: Load sharing brings kudos. March 8, 1999. EE Times Online. Richard. Goering. 2007-11-12. LSF ... enables load sharing by distributing jobs to available CPUs in heterogeneous networks ... but don't tell them that; they'll just want to raise their prices. 2011-05-16. https://web.archive.org/web/20110516221712/http://www.eetimes.com/news/design/columns/tool_talk/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=17404463.
4. Utopia: A Load Sharing Facility for Large, Heterogeneous Distributed Computer Systems. 1993 . 10.1.1.121.1434. Zhou . Songnian . Wang . Jingwen . Zheng . Xiaohu . Delisle . Pierre .
5. Web site: Platform Lava . 2011-03-25 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110421033714/http://www.hpccommunity.org/section/lava-5/ . 2011-04-21 .
6. http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/36372.wss IBM Closes on Acquisition of Platform Computing