Not sure if this is the correct area for this question but I'll give it a shot.

Looking for a way to schedule jobs in LSF similar to the way cron runs jobs? If this is possible can someone direct me to where the process is documented. Google has not been my friend in researching this.

Thanks in advance.
Cheers,

Any time you write an acronym you should think "Will people know what this is?".

On looking for LSF it seems many of the hits relate to this commercial product:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platform_LSF

That article says that the LSF it is talking about IS a job scheduler.

Is that one you're talking about? If not perhaps a little more detail might elicit answers for you.

My apologies, yes, you are correct. I was referring to the commercial LSF tool. LSF stands for load sharing facility and it does 'schedule' jobs but not in the way that cron schedules jobs.

Typically an end user will submit a job to LSF with the intention of running immediately. LSF 'schedules' the job by finding appropriate system, or systems for mult-threaded jobs, on the compute farm. For example, you might have a job that requires hundreds of simulations. This could take weeks on a single local system but LSF can distribute the job across a compute farm and cut the runtime to a fraction normally required.

My motivation for using LSF for cron type scheduling is that the cron (LSF_cron?) would always be available even if my local system is shutdown.

I'm not really familiar with this Product. I notice there is (or was) an Open Source product called Platform Lava in same family.

Anyway on looking online I did find a place that appears to have the command line man pages used within Platform LSF:

http://www.cisl.ucar.edu/docs/LSF/7....and_reference/

On looking at the command for submitting schedules found there:
http://www.cisl.ucar.edu/docs/LSF/7....ce/ssched.html

It shows a wait option to delay the run but didn't really show a clear option to schedule at a certain time. You could use this to submit something to run say 24 hours from now by specifying 86400 seconds but it wouldn't run same time every week.

There may be other commands available in that list that give better options.

This might be a start for me to put something together.

Thanks for the help.

Regards,

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No problem.

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