Submit a job

To have your work run on the cluster, you must submit jobs. You have many options when submitting a job.

About this task

The following is the most basic way of submitting a job.

Procedure

To submit a job, run bsub.

If you do not specify any options, the job is submitted to the default queue configured by the LSF administrator (usually queue normal)

For example, if you submit the job my_job without specifying a queue, the job goes to the default queue.

bsub my_job
Job <1234> is submitted to default queue <normal>

In the above example, 1234 is the job ID assigned to this job, and normal is the name of the default job queue.

Results

Your job remains pending until all conditions for its execution are met. Each queue has execution conditions that apply to all jobs in the queue, and you can specify additional conditions when you submit the job

When you submit jobs, you can also specify an execution host or a range of hosts, a queue, and start and termination times, as well as a wide range of other job options.