Platform Computing’s LSF software is a distributed computing resource management tool that you can use with either the serial or the parallel version of Ansys Fluent. This document provides general information about running Fluent under LSF, and is made available via the Ansys, Inc. website for your convenience. Contact Platform directly for support of their product.
Using LSF, Fluent simulations can take full advantage of
LSF checkpointing (saving Fluent .cas and .dat files) and migration features.
LSF is also integrated with various MPI communication libraries for
distributed MPI processing, increasing the efficiency of the software
and data processing.
Important: Running Fluent under LSF is not supported on Windows.
Platform’s Standard Edition is the foundation for all LSF products, it offers users load sharing and batch scheduling across distributed Linux and Windows computing environments. Platform’s LSF Standard Edition provides the following functionality:
comprehensive distributed resource management
provides dynamic load sharing services
allows for batch scheduling and resource management policies
flexible queues and sharing control
prioritizes jobs
schedules jobs with load conditions
processes jobs with time windows
provides limits on the number of running jobs and job resource consumption
fair-share scheduling of limited resources
manages shares for users and user groups
ensures fair sharing of limited computing resources
maximum fault tolerance
provides batch service as long as one computer is active
ensures that no job is lost when the entire network goes down
restarts jobs on other compute nodes when a computer goes down
For more information, see the following section: