Using LSF Parallel Application Integrations
- Using LSF with ANSYS
LSF use supports various ANSYS solvers through a common integration console built- in to the ANSYS GUI. The only change the average ANSYS user sees is the addition of a Run using LSF? button on the standard ANSYS console. Using ANSYS with LSF simplifies distribution of jobs, and improves throughput by removing the need for engineers to worry about when or where their jobs run. They simply request job execution and know that their job will be completed as fast as their environment will allow. - Using LSF with NCBI BLAST
LSF accepts jobs running NCBI BLAST (Basic Local Alignment Search Tool). - Using LSF with FLUENT
LSF is integrated with FLUENT products from ANSYS Inc., allowing FLUENT jobs to take advantage of the checkpointing and migration features provided by LSF. This increases the efficiency of the software and means data is processed faster. FLUENT 5 offers versions based on system vendors' parallel environments (usually MPI using the VMPI version of FLUENT 5.) Fluent also provides a parallel version of FLUENT 5 based on its own socket-based message passing library (the NET version). This chapter assumes you are already familiar with using FLUENT software and checkpointing jobs in LSF. - Using LSF with Gaussian
Platform LSF accepts jobs running the Gaussian electronic structure modeling program. - Using LSF with Lion Bioscience SRS
SRS is Lion Bioscience's Data Integration Platform, in which data is extracted by all other Lion Bioscience applications or third-party products. LSF works with the batch queue feature of SRS to provide load sharing and allow users to manage their running and completed jobs. - Using LSF with LSTC LS-DYNA
LSF is integrated with products from Livermore Software Technology Corporation (LSTC). LS-DYNA jobs can use the checkpoint and restart features of LSF and take advantage of both SMP and distributed MPP parallel computation. To submit LS-DYNA jobs through LSF, you only need to make sure that your jobs are checkpointable. - Using LSF with MSC Nastran
MSC Nastran Version 70.7.2 ("Nastran") runs in a Distributed Parallel mode, and automatically detects a job launched by LSF, and transparently accepts the execution host information from LSF. The Nastran application checks if the LSB_HOSTS or LSB_MCPU_HOSTS environment variable is set in the execution environment. If either is set, Nastran uses the value of the environment variable to produce a list of execution nodes for the solver command line. Users can override the hosts chosen by LSF to specify their own host list.
Parent topic: LSF Integrations