Question

I’m running some jobs on a cluster that uses the LSF batch scheduling tool. A typical batch request looks like this:

bsub -q someQueue -R someResourceType /home/user/myProgram

In the cluster that I’m using, there are approximately ten different types of resources. (In other words, ten different types of nodes in the cluster.) There are three resource types that would be acceptable for the batch jobs that I’m running. Therefore, I’d like to make a request that says “use whichever resource type is available out of resourceType1, resourceType2, or resourceType3.”

I’m guessing such a request would look something like this:

bsub -q someQueue -R {resourceType1 or resourceType2 or resourceType3} /home/user/myProgram

Is there a way to do this in LSF?

Answer 1

Here’s the appropriate syntax:

bsub -q someQueue -R "resourceType1|resourceType2|resourceType3" /home/user/myProgram

Make sure you don’t forget the quotes!