LSF and SLURM

The following enhancements were made to the Load Sharing Facility (LSF) and Simple Linux Utility for Resource Management (SLURM) on HP XC:

The most recent versions of the LSF and SLURM products are provided in this release:
- LSF-HPC with SLURM and Standard LSF Version 6.1
- SLURM Version 0.5.0-1
This release introduces the option to install and configure standard LSF. In previous releases, standard LSF was not offered as an option.
The cluster_config utility provides the option to install LSF-HPC integrated with SLURM or standard LSF. In previous releases, only LSF-HPC with SLURM was available
LSF batch jobs are no longer impacted by LSF failover.
LSF now reports accurate CPU time and memory usage for all jobs.
SLURM has improved support for the Quadrics interconnect and job accounting.
The spconfig utility accurately configures processor count and memory size for all compute nodes in SLURM.

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