Using LSF with ANSYS
LSF use supports various ANSYS solvers through a common
integration console built- in to the ANSYS GUI. The only change the
average ANSYS user sees is the addition of a Run using
LSF? button on the standard ANSYS console. Using ANSYS
with LSF simplifies distribution of jobs, and improves throughput
by removing the need for engineers to worry about when or where their
jobs run. They simply request job execution and know that their job
will be completed as fast as their environment will allow.
Using LSF with FLUENT
LSF is integrated with FLUENT products from ANSYS Inc.,
allowing FLUENT jobs to take advantage of the checkpointing and migration
features provided by LSF. This increases the efficiency of the software
and means data is processed faster. FLUENT 5 offers versions based
on system vendors' parallel environments (usually MPI using the VMPI
version of FLUENT 5.) Fluent also provides a parallel version of FLUENT
5 based on its own socket-based message passing library (the NET version).
This chapter assumes you are already familiar with using FLUENT software
and checkpointing jobs in LSF.
Using LSF with Gaussian
Platform LSF accepts jobs running the Gaussian electronic
structure modeling program.
Using LSF with Lion Bioscience SRS
SRS is Lion Bioscience's Data Integration Platform, in
which data is extracted by all other Lion Bioscience applications
or third-party products. LSF works with the batch queue feature of
SRS to provide load sharing and allow users to manage their running
and completed jobs.
Using LSF with LSTC LS-DYNA
LSF is integrated with products from Livermore Software
Technology Corporation (LSTC). LS-DYNA jobs can use the checkpoint
and restart features of LSF and take advantage of both SMP and distributed
MPP parallel computation. To submit LS-DYNA jobs through LSF, you
only need to make sure that your jobs are checkpointable.
Using LSF with MSC Nastran
MSC Nastran Version 70.7.2 ("Nastran") runs in a Distributed
Parallel mode, and automatically detects a job launched by LSF, and
transparently accepts the execution host information from LSF. The
Nastran application checks if the LSB_HOSTS or LSB_MCPU_HOSTS environment
variable is set in the execution environment. If either is set, Nastran
uses the value of the environment variable to produce a list of execution
nodes for the solver command line. Users can override the hosts chosen
by LSF to specify their own host list.