IBM Spectrum LSF
{{Short description|Job scheduler}}
{{Infobox Software
| name = LSF
| screenshot =
| caption =
| developer = IBM (current)
Platform Computing (former)
| latest_release_version = 10.1.0 (10.1.0.15{{cite web|url=https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/spectrum-lsf/10.1.0?topic=wn-whats-new-in-lsf-101-fix-pack-15|title=What's new in IBM Spectrum LSF Version 10.1 Fix Pack 15|website=IBM |access-date=2025-06-03}})
| latest_release_date = May 2025
| operating_system = AIX, HP-UX, Linux, Windows, macOS, Solaris
| genre = Job scheduler
| license = Proprietary
| website = [https://www.ibm.com/products/hpc-workload-management IBM Spectrum LSF]
}}
IBM Spectrum LSF (LSF, originally Platform Load Sharing Facility) is a workload management platform, job scheduler, for distributed high performance computing (HPC) by IBM.
Details
It can be used to execute batch jobs on networked Unix and Windows systems on many different architectures.{{cite book|title=Oracle 10g Grid & Real Application Clusters |author=Mike Ault |author2=Madhu Tumma |publisher=Rampant TechPress|year=2004|isbn=978-0-9744355-4-1|page=24}}{{cite web|url=http://www.eetimes.com/news/design/columns/tool_talk/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=17404463|date=March 8, 1999|title=Load sharing brings kudos|publisher=EE Times Online|first=Richard|last=Goering|access-date=2007-11-12|quote=LSF ... enables load sharing by distributing jobs to available CPUs in heterogeneous networks ... but don't tell them that; they'll just want to raise their prices|archive-date=2011-05-16|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110516221712/http://www.eetimes.com/news/design/columns/tool_talk/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=17404463}} LSF was based on the Utopia research project at the University of Toronto.{{cite CiteSeerX |title=Utopia: A Load Sharing Facility for Large, Heterogeneous Distributed Computer Systems|year=1993 |citeseerx = 10.1.1.121.1434|last1=Zhou |first1=Songnian |last2=Wang |first2=Jingwen |last3=Zheng |first3=Xiaohu |last4=Delisle |first4=Pierre }}
In 2007, Platform released Platform Lava, which is a simplified version of LSF based on an old version of LSF release, licensed under GNU General Public License v2.{{Cite web |url=http://www.hpccommunity.org/section/lava-5/ |title=Platform Lava |access-date=2011-03-25 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110421033714/http://www.hpccommunity.org/section/lava-5/ |archive-date=2011-04-21 }} The project was discontinued in 2011, succeeded by OpenLava.
In January, 2012, Platform Computing was acquired by IBM.[https://web.archive.org/web/20120112053601/http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/36372.wss IBM Closes on Acquisition of Platform Computing] The product is now called IBM Spectrum LSF.
IBM Spectrum LSF Community Edition is a no-charge community edition of the IBM Spectrum LSF workload management platform.
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