| Developer(s) | IBM (current) Platform Computing (former) |
|---|---|
| Stable release | 10.1.0 (10.1.0.14) / June 2023 |
| Operating system | AIX, HP-UX, Linux, Windows, macOS, Solaris |
| Type | 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. 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 Spectrum LSF Community Edition is a no-charge community edition of the IBM Spectrum LSF workload management platform.
References
- "What's new in IBM Spectrum LSF Version 10.1 Fix Pack 14". IBM. Retrieved 2023-07-02.
- Mike Ault; Madhu Tumma (2004). Oracle 10g Grid & Real Application Clusters. Rampant TechPress. p. 24. ISBN 978-0-9744355-4-1.
- Goering, Richard (March 8, 1999). "Load sharing brings kudos". EE Times Online. Archived from the original on 2011-05-16. Retrieved 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
- Zhou, Songnian; Wang, Jingwen; Zheng, Xiaohu; Delisle, Pierre (1993). "Utopia: A Load Sharing Facility for Large, Heterogeneous Distributed Computer Systems". CiteSeerX 10.1.1.121.1434.
- "Platform Lava". Archived from the original on 2011-04-21. Retrieved 2011-03-25.
- IBM Closes on Acquisition of Platform Computing