September 1999
Intermediate to advanced
332 pages
8h 19m
English
The LSF software has a cluster viewpoint of resource management. It is essentially unaware of other resource controls which may be implemented on the hosts that make up the LSF cluster. The LSF software assumes that all the resources within its cluster are at its disposal. Network bandwidth is not a major concern of the LSF software since the batch jobs it controls do not generate much network traffic and neither does the monitoring or management of jobs running on execution hosts.
In the Sun HPC environment, a high speed interconnect is used for message passing between hosts running parallel applications. Since this is a dedicated channel, resource control of the traffic on the interconnect is not required. ...
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