Overview of Job Submission

On an HP XC system, a job is submitted to LSF-HPC, which places the job in a queue and allows it to run when the necessary resources become available. The LSF bsub command is the primary method for submitting jobs on the HP XC system.

The format of the bsub command depends on the type of the job, as listed here:

The remaining sections describe how to submit a job for each of these job types.

The examples in this section submit the hostname command or a variation of a "hello, world" program. Most examples are run as interactive jobs to display the output.

The examples in this chapter are run on an HP XC system configuration in which lsfhost.localdomain is the virtual IP name of the LSF execution host and nodes n[1-16] are compute nodes in the lsf partition. All nodes contain 2 cores, providing 32 cores for use by LSF-HPC jobs.