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> Hi Nandini
>
> (I should prefix this with the fact that I have never run LAM under LSF.)
> Provided you can get access to the node list that LSF assigns to your job and
> LSF doesn't spawn some other environment, it should work fine. You need to
> get a node list from LSF, presumably through some environment variable/temp
> file. Build your bhost file from that in a shell script before calling
> lamboot-mpirun-lamhalt.
>
>
>
> > Hello,
> > I am a novice when it comes to the workings of MPI and lam.
> > I am currently working on a high performance cluster which nodes are
> > managed by the LSF queuing system for which I submit jobs through the
> > batch mode. This cluster does not have LAM on it and I have installed
> > LAM in my working directory.
> > My doubts are:
> > Can LAM operate in such a fashion, where I submit MPI programs through
> > the batch mode and the LSF determines on which nodes the programs execute?
> > If so, what do I specify as the nodes in the hostfile for lamboot? Do I
> > need to know the names of individual nodes/hosts which make up the cluster?
> >
check out:
http://ait.web.psi.ch/services/linux/merlin-lsf.htm
there is a section discribing usage of LSF with LAM/MPI apps.
hofrat
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