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LSF (Load Sharing Facility) is a job scheduler provided by Platform Computing.  It is used at SLAC to execute user batch jobs on the various batch farms.  A short list of useful LSF status commands follows (see next sections for submitting jobs):

Report status of ALL all jobs (running, pending, finished, et cetera etc) submitted by the current user:

bjobs -w -a

Report only running or pending jobs submitted by user "radmer":

bjobs -w -u radmer

Report running or pending jobs for all users in the psnehq queue:

bjobs -w -u all -q psnehq

Report current node usage on the two NEH batch farms:

bhosts -w ps11farm ps12farm

The following links give more detailed LSF usage information:

 can find more LCLS specific information about LSF in this PDF file. For a more detailed description and more LSF commands, please see:

Overview of LSF at SLAC

Power Point presentation describing LSF at SLAC

Batch system in a nutshellhttp://www.slac.stanford.edu/comp/unix/unix-hpc.html

Submitting Batch Jobs (link)

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