Overview

• This page discusses the similarities between slurm and the LSF system when it comes to managing and submitting jobs.

• This page won’t cover everything about LSF but is designed to be a stepping stone to go from when transitioning to the Compute Platform.

Comparible Commands

• The following list is slurm commands and their equivalent within LSF.

  • sbatch - bsub

  • squeue - bjobs

  • scancel - bkill

  • sinfo - bhosts

• More information about job commands can be found in our job execution examples documentation.

Job Scripts

• Most of the documentation and use of the Compute Platform assumes submitting jobs directly with bsub.

• Jobs can also be submitted via job scripts just like in slurm.

• An example slurm job script might look like the following.

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• Users can create job scripts for LSF just like they would for slurm.

• The On Compute1 the -a option must be included to specify which Docker image the job is using.

• Unlike a more traditional HPC system the Compute Platform Compute1 makes use of Docker images instead of modules while Compute2 has modules and the ability to use containers.

• You can read more about Docker and it’s association with the Compute Platform Compute1 at the following links.

  • Docker and the RIS Compute Service

  • Docker Basics: Building, Tagging, & Pushing A Custom Docker Image

  • RIS Docker Workshop

• You can submit a job script in LSF using the following command.

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