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LSF

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What is LSF?

IBM Spectrum LSF (Load Sharing Facility) is a workload management platform, including job scheduling and resource management, for demanding HPC (High Performance Computing) environments. It enables organizations to improve resource utilization, accelerate application performance, and reduce operational costs. LSF intelligently schedules jobs based on resource requirements, priorities, and policies, ensuring efficient use of computing resources across a cluster or a grid.

What other technologies are related to LSF?

LSF Competitor Technologies

Slurm is a workload manager, like LSF, used for scheduling and managing jobs on large compute clusters.
mentioned alongside LSF in 17% (1.4k) of relevant job posts
Grid Engine (formerly Sun Grid Engine, now Oracle Grid Engine) is another workload management system similar to LSF.
mentioned alongside LSF in 49% (124) of relevant job posts
PBS (Portable Batch System) is a workload management system, similar in function to LSF, scheduling and managing jobs.
mentioned alongside LSF in 17% (333) of relevant job posts
UGE (Univa Grid Engine) is a commercial distribution of Grid Engine, thus a competitor to LSF.
mentioned alongside LSF in 68% (66) of relevant job posts
SGE (Sun Grid Engine) is the original name of Grid Engine, thus a competitor to LSF.
mentioned alongside LSF in 15% (96) of relevant job posts
PBS Pro is a commercial workload manager, a competitor to LSF.
mentioned alongside LSF in 19% (53) of relevant job posts
Torque is an open-source resource manager based on the PBS project, thus a competitor to LSF.
mentioned alongside LSF in 10% (76) of relevant job posts

LSF Complementary Technologies

GPFS (now IBM Spectrum Scale) is a high-performance file system that can be used with LSF to provide shared storage for compute jobs.
mentioned alongside LSF in 16% (420) of relevant job posts
Lustre is a parallel file system often used in HPC environments, and can be used as shared storage with LSF.
mentioned alongside LSF in 12% (399) of relevant job posts
xCAT is a cluster management tool that can be used to provision and manage the nodes in a cluster managed by LSF.
mentioned alongside LSF in 26% (142) of relevant job posts

Which organizations are mentioning LSF?

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Qualcomm
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NVIDIA
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