This guide provides tutorial and reference information for users of the LSF JobScheduler software. This guide is intended for end users of JobScheduler. Users should be familiar with executing commands in a UNIX or Windows NT environment.
JobScheduler administrators should be familiar with the contents of this guide, along with the LSF Administrator's Guide.
The first two chapters are an introduction to production job scheduling and JobScheduler. Chapter 1 is an overview of the architecture and features of JobScheduler. The information is theory and background; you can skip this section if you are not interested. Chapter 2 shows you how to use the basic features of JobScheduler. If you have never used JobScheduler before, this is the best place to start.
The rest of the chapters give more detailed descriptions of all JobScheduler features and programs. These chapters are independent of each other; you only need to read those that cover topics of interest to you.
Chapter 3 discusses events and how JobScheduler uses them to schedule jobs.
Chapter 4 explains how to define and use calendars.
Chapter 5 describes JobScheduler environment.
Chapter 6 defines jobs, applications, and job groups, while Chapter 7 shows how to track your jobs.
Finally, Chapter 8 contains discusses advanced JobScheduler features that are not as commonly used.
The LSF Administrator's Guide describes how to install and configure LSF and JobScheduler, and how to manage LSF clusters.
The LSF User's Guide provides tutorial and reference information for LSF Base, LSF Batch, and LSF MultiCluster products.
The on-line manual pages contain detailed descriptions of all JobScheduler and LSF commands, daemons, functions and configuration files. The lsfintro(1), lsbatch(1), lslib(3), lsblib(3), lim(8), res(8), and mbatchd(8) manual pages include references to all other LSF-related manual pages.
The xlsbatch and xlsadmin graphical user interface applications are also documented with the on-line help available through the Help menu in each application.
If you need any technical assistance with JobScheduler, please contact your reseller or the Technical Support Department at the following address:
JobScheduler Technical Support
Platform Computing Corporation
5001 Yonge Street, Suite 1401
North York, Ontario
Canada M2N 6P6
Tel: +1 416 512 9587
Fax: +1 416 512 8976
Electronic mail: support@platform.com
You may find the answers you need from the Platform Computing Corporation home page on the World Wide Web. Set your browser to http://www.platform.com.
If you have any comments about this document, please send them to the address above to the attention of JobScheduler Documentation, or send electronic mail to doc@platform.com.
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