IBM Spectrum LSF Community Edition

IBM Spectrum LSF Community Edition is a no-charge community edition of the IBM Spectrum LSF workload management platform.

IBM Spectrum LSF is a powerful workload management system for distributed computing environments. IBM Spectrum LSF 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.

IBM Spectrum LSF has robust workload applications management capabilities that are accessible using the latest design in web-based interfaces, making it powerful and simple to use. For applications requiring MPI, the Platform MPI library accelerates and scales HPC applications for shorter time to solution.

Community assistance is available through the LSF forums on IBM developerWorks Opens in a new tab .

Note: To install and run the IBM Spectrum LSF Community Edition application, you must have a host with a dual-socket core, or single cores. If single cores are used, a maximum of 10 is supported.