View source for Software:IBM Spectrum LSF

{{Short description|Job scheduler}}
{{Infobox Software
| name = LSF
| screenshot = 
| caption = 
| developer = [[Company:IBM|IBM]] (current)<br />[[Company:Platform Computing|Platform Computing]] (former)
| latest_release_version = 10.1.0 (10.1.0.14<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/spectrum-lsf/10.1.0?topic=wn-whats-new-in-lsf-101-fix-pack-14|title=What's new in IBM Spectrum LSF Version 10.1 Fix Pack 14|website=[[Company:IBM|IBM]] |access-date=2023-07-02}}</ref>)
| latest_release_date = June 2023
| operating_system = [[Software:AIX|AIX]], [[Software:HP-UX|HP-UX]], [[Software:Linux|Linux]], [[Software:Microsoft Windows|Windows]], [[Software:MacOS|macOS]], [[Software:Oracle Solaris|Solaris]]
| genre = [[Software:Job scheduler|Job scheduler]]
| license = [[Proprietary software|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, [[Software:Job scheduler|job scheduler]], for distributed high performance computing (HPC) by [[Company:IBM|IBM]].

==Details==
It can be used to execute batch jobs on networked Unix and Windows systems on many different architectures.<ref>{{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}}</ref><ref>{{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}}</ref> LSF was based on the ''Utopia'' research project at the [[Organization:University of Toronto|University of Toronto]].<ref>{{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 }}</ref>

In 2007, Platform released ''Platform Lava'', which is a simplified version of LSF based on an old version of LSF release, licensed under [[Software:GNU General Public License|GNU General Public License]] v2.<ref>{{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 }}</ref> The project was discontinued in 2011, succeeded by [[Software:OpenLava|OpenLava]].

In January, 2012, [[Company:Platform Computing|Platform Computing]] was acquired by [[Company:IBM|IBM]].<ref>[http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/36372.wss IBM Closes on Acquisition of Platform Computing]</ref> 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.

==References==
{{reflist}}

==Also See==
* Sun Grid Engine
* [[Software:HTCondor|HTCondor]]



{{DEFAULTSORT:Platform Lsf}}
[[Category:Job scheduling]]
[[Category:Grid computing]]

{{Sourceattribution|IBM Spectrum LSF}}