Overview
The batch system at SLAC uses the IBM Platform Load Sharing Facility, LSF, and is made up of
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Various scientific groups at SLAC contribute to the purchase of the general farm batch systems and jobs submitted to run in the general farm are scheduled according to a fairshare priority structure. If you are not part of a computing group that has a fairshare, your jobs will run according to the priority of the group called AllUsers. More information about fairshare scheduling at Slac can be found here https://confluence.slac.stanford.edu/display/SCSPub/Fairshare+Scheduling
Submitting Jobs to the General Farm
To submit jobs to the general farm you will need to
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bsub -W <time in minutes> <your job>
Fermi/GLAST and batch
Information about using batch at SLAC for the Fermi/GLAST user can be found here: http://www.slac.stanford.edu/exp/glast/wb/prod/pages/installingOfflineSW/usingSlacBatchFarm.htm
Documentation
There are manpages available for the various batch commands and there is full documentation for LSF here www.slac.stanford.edu/comp/unix/package/lsf/currdoc/ .
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