Quick Start Guide

Product overview

IBM Spectrum LSF Suite for Enterprise is a powerful workload management platform for demanding, distributed computing environments. It provides a comprehensive set of intelligent, policy-driven scheduling features that enable you to use all of your compute infrastructure resources and ensure optimal application performance.

Its robust workload applications management capabilities are accessible with an updated web-based interface, making it powerful and simple to use. For applications that require MPI, the robust, commercial MPI library accelerates and scales HPC applications for shorter time to solution.

Evaluate the hardware and system configuration

The IBM Spectrum LSF Suite for Enterprise installation requires:

A computing environment that consists of at least one host
A host that has at least one network interface to act as the LSF master host
A supported operating system that is preinstalled on the LSF master host

The IBM Spectrum LSF Suite for Enterprise must meet the minimum hardware and software requirements of the installed components.

For details about system hardware and software requirements for IBM Spectrum LSF Suite for Enterprise installation, and for more information about hardware and software compatibility of IBM Spectrum LSF Suite for Enterprise components, see the system requirements information in IBM Knowledge Center and on the IBM Spectrum LSF wiki:

Installation requirements for IBM Spectrum LSF Suite for Enterprise Installation requirements for IBM Spectrum LSF Suite for Enterprise

Installing

Follow the installation steps in Installing and upgrading IBM Spectrum LSF Suite for Enterprise Installing and upgrading IBM Spectrum LSF Suite for Enterprise.

Get started

After you install IBM Spectrum LSF Suite for Enterprise, you can start configuring the applications and completing other administrative tasks.

See more about getting started with IBM Spectrum LSF Suite for Enterprise components here:

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More information

For more information about IBM Spectrum LSF Suite for Enterprise, refer to the following resources:

Find information about IBM Spectrum LSF Suite for Enterprise components including product-specific fixes, alerts and bulletins, and all product support content such as Technotes and IBM® White Papers on the IBM Support Portal (www.ibm.com/support/entry/myportal/support):
IBM Spectrum LSF Suites v10.2 YouTube channel (https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLdgu63Noj6vLNzkhJgcNT_VCx6mV4BjmD)
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