Useful LSF commands

The following commands can be executed in the Linux shell prompt to see status of queuing system, LSF (Load Sharing Facility) from Platform Computing Inc.

• bacct - displays accounting statistics about finished jobs
• bhist - displays historical information about jobs
• bhosts - displays hosts and their static and dynamic resources
• bjobs - displays information about LSF jobs (e.g. bjobs -u all)
  
• bsub - submits a batch job to LSF
• bpeek - displays the stdout and stderr output of an unfinished job
• bqueues - displays information about queues.
• lsclusters - displays configuration information about LSF clusters
• lshosts - displays static resource information about hosts.
• lsid - displays the current LSF version number, the cluster name, and the master host
  name
  
• lsload - displays load information for hosts
• lsinfo - displays all load sharing configuration information
• lsmon (xlsmon) - displays load information for LSF hosts and periodically updates the display
  
• lsrun - submits a task to LSF for execution.