For both queue and host partitions, hierarchical user-based fairshare lets you allocate resources to users in a hierarchical manner.
By default, when shares are assigned to a group, group members compete for resources according to FCFS policy. If you use hierarchical fairshare, you control the way shares that are assigned collectively are divided among group members.
If groups have subgroups, you can configure additional levels of share assignments, resulting in a multi-level share tree that becomes part of the fairshare policy.
When you use hierarchical fairshare, the dynamic share priority formula does not change, but LSF measures the resource consumption for all levels of the share tree. To calculate the dynamic priority of a group, LSF uses the resource consumption of all the jobs in the queue or host partition that belong to users in the group and all its subgroups, recursively.
LSF uses the dynamic share priority of a user or group to find out which user's job to run next. If you use hierarchical fairshare, LSF works through the share tree from the top level down, and compares the dynamic priority of users and groups at each level until the user with the highest dynamic priority is a single user, or a group that has no subgroups.