Submit a job to a queue

About this task

The following examples are based on the queues that are defined in the default configuration. Your LSF administrator may have configured different queues.

Procedure

To run a job during off hours because the job generates very high load to both the file server and the network, you can submit it to the night queue:
```
bsub -q "night" my_job
```
If you have an urgent job to run, you can submit it to the priority queue:
```
bsub -q "priority" my_job
```
To use hosts that are owned by others, and you are not able to ask the owners, run low priority jobs on the idle queue:
```
bsub -q "idle" my_job
```
If you are running small jobs and do not want to wait too long to get the results, you can submit jobs to the short queue to be dispatched with higher priority:
```
bsub -q "short" my_job
```
Tip: Ensure that your jobs are short enough that they are not killed for exceeding the CPU time limit of the queue (check the resource limits of the queue, if any).
If your job requires a specific execution environment, you may need to submit it to a queue that has a particular job starter defined. LSF administrators are able to specify a queue-level job starter as part of the queue definition; ask them for the name of the queue and configuration details.