Our Platform LSF Configuration & Administration (UNIX/Linux) course is designed to give system administrators the knowledge required to implement and maintain LSF in their working environment. They will gain a solid understanding of workload resource management, cluster configuration and administration. The workshops provide valuable experience with the installation of LSF, cluster configuration and administration. The system administrator will also learn helpful hints and tips and develop fundamental troubleshooting skills.

Who Should Attend
The Platform LSF Configuration & Administration (UNIX/Linux) course has been developed for system administrators and users who will implement LSF and who will be responsible for managing the environment.

Course Pre-requisite
Attendees should be familiar with UNIX/Linux and have basic UNIX/Linux system administration experience.

Course Materials
All participants will receive a training manual and workshops.

Course Content
This course covers the following:

• Advanced Concepts & Commands
• Site specific shared Resources
• Checkpointing, Rerun and Migration
• Job Modification and Controls
• Job Arrays, Dependencies and Chunking
• Job Groups
• Application Profiling
• JSDL - Job Submission Description Language
• Dynamic Host and Floating clients
• LSF MultiCluster
• Administration
• Job Environment Management
• Advanced Queue, Host & Daemon Management
• Time-based Configuration
• Software License Management
• Advanced Resource and Memory Reservations
• SLA Configuration
• Configuration of EGO-Enabled SLA with LSF
• Using the Platform Management Console (PMC)
• Reporting using the PMC Interface (PERF)

Format
Instructor-led (lecture/lab)