IBM Spectrum LSF
Job scheduler
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IBM Spectrum LSF (LSF, originally Platform Load Sharing Facility) is a workload management platform, job scheduler, for distributed high performance computing (HPC) by IBM.
Platform Computing (former)
| LSF | |
|---|---|
| Developers | IBM (current) Platform Computing (former) |
| Stable release | 10.1.0 (10.1.0.15[1])
/ May 2025 |
| Operating system | AIX, HP-UX, Linux, Windows, macOS, Solaris |
| Type | Job scheduler |
| License | Proprietary |
| Website | IBM Spectrum LSF |
Details
It can be used to execute batch jobs on networked Unix and Windows systems on many different architectures.[2][3] LSF was based on the Utopia research project at the University of Toronto.[4]
In 2007, Platform released Platform Lava, which is a simplified version of LSF based on an old version of LSF release, licensed under GNU General Public License v2.[5] The project was discontinued in 2011, succeeded by OpenLava.
In January, 2012, Platform Computing was acquired by IBM.[6] The product is now called IBM Spectrum LSF.
IBM Spectrum LSF Community Edition is a no-charge community edition of the IBM Spectrum LSF workload management platform.