IBM Spectrum LSF (LSF, originally Platform Load Sharing Facility) is a workload management platform,

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, for distributed

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(HPC) by IBM.

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It can be used to execute

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s on networked Unix and Windows systems on many different architectures. LSF was based on the ''Utopia'' research project at the

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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

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v2. The project was discontinued in 2011, succeeded by OpenLava. In January, 2012, Platform Computing was acquired by IBM.IBM Closes on Acquisition of Platform Computing
/ref> The product is now called IBM Spectrum LSF. IBM Spectrum LSF Community Edition is a no-charge community edition of the IBM Spectrum LSF workload management platform.

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Also See

* Sun Grid Engine * HTCondor {{DEFAULTSORT:Platform Lsf Job scheduling Grid computing