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{{Infobox Software<br />
| name = LSF<br />
| screenshot = <br />
| caption = <br />
| developer = [[IBM]] (current)<br />[[Platform Computing]] (former)<br />
| latest_release_version = 10.1.0 (10.1.0.15<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/spectrum-lsf/10.1.0?topic=wn-whats-new-in-lsf-101-fix-pack-15|title=What's new in IBM Spectrum LSF Version 10.1 Fix Pack 15|website=[[IBM]] |access-date=2025-06-03}}</ref>)<br />
| latest_release_date = May 2025<br />
| operating_system = [[AIX]], [[HP-UX]], [[Linux]], [[Microsoft Windows|Windows]], [[macOS]], [[Oracle Solaris|Solaris]]<br />
| genre = [[Job scheduler]]<br />
| license = [[Proprietary software|Proprietary]]<br />
| website = [https://www.ibm.com/products/hpc-workload-management IBM Spectrum LSF]<br />
}}<br />
'''IBM Spectrum LSF''' ('''LSF''', originally '''Platform Load Sharing Facility''') is a workload management platform, [[job scheduler]], for distributed [[high performance computing]] (HPC) by [[IBM]].<br />
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==Details==<br />
It can be used to execute [[batch job]]s on networked Unix and Windows systems on many different architectures.<ref>{{cite book|title=Oracle 10g Grid & Real Application Clusters |author=Mike Ault |author2=Madhu Tumma |publisher=Rampant TechPress|year=2004|isbn=978-0-9744355-4-1|page=24}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.eetimes.com/news/design/columns/tool_talk/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=17404463|date=March 8, 1999|title=Load sharing brings kudos|publisher=EE Times Online|first=Richard|last=Goering|access-date=2007-11-12|quote=LSF ... enables load sharing by distributing jobs to available CPUs in heterogeneous networks ... but don't tell them that; they'll just want to raise their prices|archive-date=2011-05-16|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110516221712/http://www.eetimes.com/news/design/columns/tool_talk/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=17404463}}</ref> LSF was based on the ''Utopia'' research project at the [[University of Toronto]].<ref>{{cite CiteSeerX |title=Utopia: A Load Sharing Facility for Large, Heterogeneous Distributed Computer Systems|year=1993 |citeseerx = 10.1.1.121.1434|last1=Zhou |first1=Songnian |last2=Wang |first2=Jingwen |last3=Zheng |first3=Xiaohu |last4=Delisle |first4=Pierre }}</ref><br />
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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.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.hpccommunity.org/section/lava-5/ |title=Platform Lava |access-date=2011-03-25 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110421033714/http://www.hpccommunity.org/section/lava-5/ |archive-date=2011-04-21 }}</ref> The project was discontinued in 2011, succeeded by [[OpenLava]].<br />
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In January, 2012, [[Platform Computing]] was acquired by [[IBM]].<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20120112053601/http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/36372.wss IBM Closes on Acquisition of Platform Computing]</ref> The product is now called IBM Spectrum LSF. <br />
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IBM Spectrum '''LSF Community Edition''' is a no-charge community edition of the IBM Spectrum LSF workload management platform.<br />
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==References==<br />
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==Also See==<br />
* [[Sun Grid Engine]]<br />
* [[HTCondor]]<br />
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