Overview
Batch jobs at SLAC use the IBM Platform LSF system. There is a general farm of batch servers that is open to all SLAC users, an mpi farm which requires that you request access and run only mpi jobs, and various other farms of machines that belong to individual scientific computing groups. The general farm batch machines are described here . Various scientific groups at SLAC submit funds to purchase these systems and jobs 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.