Quick start guide for IBM Spectrum LSF Suite for Enterprise Plus Version 10.2 Fix Pack 15

Quick Start Guide

IBM Spectrum LSF Suite for Enterprise Plus

This guide describes a quick and easy way to get up and running with the product.

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Product overview

IBM Spectrum LSF Suite for Enterprise Plus 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.

Procedure

  1. IBM Spectrum LSF Suite for Enterprise Plus offering components
    IBM Spectrum LSF Suite for Enterprise Plus 10.2 Fix Pack 15 includes the following IBM Spectrum Computing components:
    • IBM Spectrum LSF 10.1 Fix Pack 15 is a powerful workload management platform for demanding, distributed HPC 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. The resource connector for IBM Spectrum LSF feature is also enabled for LSF clusters to borrow resources from supported resource providers.
    • IBM Spectrum LSF Data Manager 10.1 Fix Pack 15 enables your applications to access the data that they require to complete computations unhindered by the location of the data in relation to the application. IBM Spectrum LSF Data Manager solves the problem of data locality by staging required data files as closely as possible to your applications. You can stage input data from an external source repository to the cluster execution hosts, and stage output data asynchronously to an external destination repository after job completion. IBM Spectrum LSF Data Manager solves the problem of data locality by staging the required data as closely as possible to the site of the application.
    • IBM Spectrum LSF Application Center 10.1 Fix Pack 15 provides a flexible, easy to use interface for cluster users and administrators. IBM Spectrum LSF Application Center is the full-featured offering, including job submission, monitoring, reporting, application templates, simplified application configuration, extended template and page customization, visualization support through VNC, configurable user access control, and integration with IBM Spectrum LSF Process Manager. The IBM Spectrum LSF Application Center desktop client is also included. You can download and install the IBM Spectrum LSF mobile client from the Google Play Store or the Apple App Store. The mobile client interacts with LSF Application Center and allows users to easily monitor their workloads.
    • IBM Spectrum LSF Process Manager 10.1 Fix Pack 15 enables you to design, document, and automate computational or analytic processes, capturing and protecting repeatable best practices. Using an intuitive graphical interface, easily document workflow steps and dependencies, and automate lengthy, repetitive tasks that are prone to human error.
    • IBM Spectrum LSF License Scheduler 10.1 Fix Pack 15 enables license sharing between local or global project teams by allocating a virtualized pool of licenses based on an organization’s own distribution policies. It makes sure that license availability is prioritized by workload, user and project, and that licenses are optimally used. Whether the application software environment is simple or complex, IBM Spectrum LSF License Scheduler helps organizations optimize their use of enterprise software licenses, improving productivity and containing costs.
    • IBM Spectrum LSF Explorer 10.1 Fix Pack 15 is a lightweight data analysis solution for IBM Spectrum LSF clusters allowing business and technical users to rapidly create and view reports and dashboards. IBM Spectrum LSF Explorer uses Elasticsearch to rapidly store, index, and query the data. With rich, interactive, and extensible visualization capabilities, you can generate reports on how the compute environment is performing, or which resources projects or lines or business are consuming.
    • IBM Spectrum LSF RTM Server 10.1 Fix Pack 15 is an operational dashboard for IBM Spectrum LSF RTMIBM Spectrum LSF environments that provides comprehensive workload monitoring, reporting, and management. It makes cluster administrators more efficient in their day-to-day activities and provides the information and tools that are needed to improve cluster efficiency, enable better user productivity, and contain or reduce costs.
    • IBM Spectrum LSF Simulator allows you to analyze and tune your LSF configuration by simulating an LSF cluster in a separate, internal environment. LSF Simulator allows you to run experiments with different and workload traces without interrupting the LSF production environment.
    • IBM Spectrum LSF Web Services allows you to access to your LSF from anywhere, making it easier for your to connect to your LSF cluster.
    Note: IBM Spectrum LSF Analytics is not supported with IBM Spectrum LSF Suite for Enterprise Plus.
  2. Access the software packages

    Download the IBM Spectrum LSF Suite for Enterprise Plus offering distribution package for your environment from IBM Passport Advantage:

    www.ibm.com/software/passportadvantage

    IBM Spectrum LSF Suite for Enterprise Plus is supported on 64-bit x86 Linux systems and on IBM Power LE (Little Endian) systems.

    To install IBM Spectrum LSF Suite for Enterprise Plus with the RPM installer, download the lsfsentplus10.2.0.15.bin file.

  3. Evaluate the hardware and system configuration
    The IBM Spectrum LSF Suite for Enterprise Plus 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 management host
    • A supported operating system that is preinstalled on the LSF management host

    The IBM Spectrum LSF Suite for Enterprise Plus 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 Plus installation, and for more information about hardware and software compatibility of IBM Spectrum LSF Suite for Enterprise Plus components, see the system requirements information in IBM Documentation:

    System requirements for IBM Spectrum LSF Suite for Enterprise

    Note: IBM Spectrum LSF Suite for Enterprise and IBM Spectrum LSF Suite for Enterprise Plus have the same system requirements.
  4. Plan your system environment before installation
    Before deploying IBM Spectrum LSF Suite for Enterprise Plus, decide on a network topology and system configuration. See more information on planning your environment here:

    IBM Spectrum LSF Suite for Enterprise installation overview

    Note: IBM Spectrum LSF Suite for Enterprise and IBM Spectrum LSF Suite for Enterprise Plus have the same system requirements.
  5. Install IBM Spectrum LSF Suite for Enterprise Plus
    1. Run the .bin package and accept the IBM license agreement, so that the package can be unpacked into a lsfsentplus10.2.0.15/ directory.
    2. Follow the installation steps in Installing and upgrading IBM Spectrum LSF Suite for Enterprise.
    3. Install other IBM Spectrum LSF Suite for Enterprise Plus offering components, as required (IBM Spectrum LSF RTM, IBM Spectrum LSF Simulator, and IBM Spectrum LSF Web Services.
    4. Run the install_license.sh script for each offering component, so that the proper software license tag file is used with each offering component.
  6. Get started
    After you install IBM Spectrum LSF Suite for Enterprise Plus, you can start configuring the applications and completing other administrative tasks.
    See more about getting started with IBM Spectrum LSF Suite for Enterprise Plus components here:
    Learn more about using and administering IBM Spectrum LSF Suite for Enterprise Plus here:
  7. Getting fixes from IBM Fix Central

    After you install or upgrade IBM Spectrum LSF Suite for Enterprise Plus, use IBM Fix Central to find and download the fixes that are recommended by IBM Support. From Fix Central, you can search, select, order, and download fix packs and interim fixes for your system with a choice of delivery options.

    Before you download a fix from IBM Fix Central (www.ibm.com/support/fixcentral), have the following information at hand:
    • Know your IBMid and password. You must log in to the Fix Central website before you can download a fix.
    • If you know exactly which fix you need, you can search for it directly from the Search Fix Central field on the IBM Fix Central website.
    On the Fix Central page, specify the product information needed to identify and download the fix that you need:
    1. On the Select product tab, select Product group > IBM Spectrum Computing.
    2. From the Product drop-down list, select IBM Spectrum LSF Suite for Enterprise Plus.
    3. From the Select from IBM Spectrum LSF Suite for Enterprise Plus drop-down list, select the version that is currently installed on your system.
    4. From the Platform drop-down list, select the platform that you are using, or select All for all platforms.
    5. Click Continue to find available fixes.
    6. On the Select fixes page, browse and select from the list of fixes for your product, version, and platform, then click Continue.
    7. On the Download options page, specify how you prefer to download the fix and any other required information.
    8. Download the files that implement the fix.
    9. To apply the fix, follow the instructions in the Readme file that is downloaded with the fix.

    For detailed steps about getting fixes from IBM Fix Central, see Getting fixes from IBM Fix Central

What to do next

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