This system is operated according to the ITCS Change Management system.  All Non-Emergency downtime will require 2 weeks notice and approval from the Change Management Committee.

  If Emergency downtime is required an email will be sent to all users informing them of the situation.

  The system "Message-of-the-Day" will be updated with any downtime schedule or other information.

  It is possible that during a downtime period, a number of batch jobs may have to be removed.  A seperate email will be sent to each user with a job in this state.

  SGI has gone to a semi-annual upgrade schedule, where major OS distributions are shipped every six months.

Academic Use Policy

LSF is a workload management system. It manages batch scheduling to more effectively manage system resources. LSF configuration LSF uses a group of configurable queues that runs each job based on a number of resource requirements of the job and availablility of system resources.

A limit of 30 cpu minutes has been placed on all processes start interactively during a session.  When an interactive task reaches this limit it will be killed by the system.  Jobs run via LSF are not affected by this limit and are controlled by the LSF queue definitiion.

Useful LSF files
On Zeus in the directory: /usr/local/lsf/ there are several adobe acrobat (.pdf) files that can be downloaded and printed for your use.

  lsf_qrefcard_6.0.pdf
     A quick reference card for normal LSF commands.
  lsf_using_6.0.pdf
     The user guide for LSF.
  running_jobs.pdf
     A tutorial on running jobs with LSF.

LSF Job queue configuration