The lstcsh shell is a load-sharing version of the tcsh command interpreter. It is compatible with csh and supports many useful extensions. csh and tcsh users can use lstcsh to send jobs to other hosts in the cluster without needing to learn any new commands. You can run lstcsh from the command-line, or use the chsh command to set it as your login shell.
With lstcsh, your commands are sent transparently for execution on faster hosts to improve response time or you can run commands on remote hosts explicitly.
lstcsh provides a high degree of network transparency. Command lines executed on remote hosts behave the same as they do on the local host. The remote execution environment is designed to mirror the local one as closely as possible by using the same values for environment variables, terminal setup, current working directory, file creation mask, and so on. Each modification to the local set of environment variables is automatically reflected on remote hosts. Note that shell variables, the nice value, and resource usage limits are not automatically propagated to remote hosts.
For more details on lstcsh, see the lstcsh(1) man page.
LSF maintains two task lists for each user, a local list (.lsftask) and a remote list (lsf.task). Commands in the local list must be executed locally. Commands in the remote list can be executed remotely.
See the LSF Configuration Reference for information about the .lsftask and lsf.task files.
Resource requirements for specific commands can be configured using task lists. You can optionally associate resource requirements with each command in the remote list to help LSF find a suitable execution host for the command.
If there are multiple eligible commands on a command-line, their resource requirements are combined for host selection.
If a command is in neither list, you can choose how lstcsh handles the command.