Platform LSF
Platform Load Sharing Facility is a workload management platform, job scheduler, for distributed high performance computing. It can be used to execute batch jobs on networked Unix and Windows systems on many different architectures. LSF was based on the Utopia research project at the University of Toronto.
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. The project was discontinued in 2011, succeeded by OpenLava.
In January, 2012, Platform Computing was acquired by IBM.
The product is now called IBM Spectrum LSF.- IBM Platform Application Center: Web interfaces for job submission, management and remote visualization.
- IBM Platform RTM: A real-time dashboard for monitoring global workloads and resource.
- IBM Platform License Scheduler: License management tool with policy-driven allocation and tracking of software licenses.
- IBM Platform Analytic : Analytic tool for visualizing and analyzing workload data.
- IBM Platform Process Manager: An interface for designing complex engineering computational processes
- IBM Platform Session Scheduler: Scheduling for LSF
- IBM Platform Dynamic Cluster: Cloud management software to change static cluster into dynamic share cloud resources
LSF Extensions and integrations
LSF extensions include:
LSF is one of the job scheduler mechanisms supported by the Grid Resource Allocation Manager component of the Globus Toolkit.
