Features and enhancements to IBM Spectrum LSF Suite V10.2 Fix Pack 6 between Dec. 1, 2017 and June 8, 2018.

Readme documentation for IBM Spectrum LSF Suite V10.2 Fix Pack 6 Fix including installation-related instructions, prerequisites and co-requisites, and list of fixes.

Readme file for: IBM® Spectrum LSF Application Center
Product/Component Release: 10.2 Fix Pack 6
Update Name: Fix
Fix ID: Suite-10.2 Fix Pack 6-build
Publication date: 11 June 2018
Last modified date: 11 June 2018

1.       What's new

2.       Download location

3.       Product notifications

4.       Products or components affected

5.       System requirements

6.       Installation and configuration

7.       Copyright and trademark information

1.    What’s New

LSF Suite 10.2 Fix Pack 6 contains the following components:

 

For Workgroup Edition:

·         LSF 10.1 Fix Pack 6

·         LSF Application Center 10.2 Fix Pack 6

·         LSF Explorer 10.2 Fix Pack 6

·         PMPI 9.1.4 (x86 only) (same as in Suite 10.2)

·         SMPI 10.1.1  (same as in Suite 10.2)

 

For HPC Edition:

·         LSF 10.1 Fix Pack 6

·         LSF Application Center 10.2 Fix Pack 6

·         LSF Explorer 10.2 Fix Pack 6

·         LSF Data Manager 10.1 Fix Pack 6

·         LSF Process Manager 10.2 Fix Pack 6

·         PMPI 9.1.4 (x86 only)  (same as in Suite 10.2)

·         SMPI 10.1.1  (same as in Suite 10.2)

 

For Enterprise Edition:

·         LSF 10.1 Fix Pack 6

·         LSF Application Center 10.2 Fix Pack 6

·         LSF Explorer 10.2 Fix Pack 6

·         LSF Data Manager 10.1 Fix Pack 6

·         LSF Process Manager 10.2 Fix Pack 6

·         LSF License Scheduler 10.1 (same as in Suite 10.2)

·         PMPI 9.1.4 (x86 only)  (same as in Suite 10.2)

·         SMPI 10.1.1  (same as in Suite 10.2)

 

The following enhancements have been made to the installation and life-cycle management functions of IBM Spectrum LSF Suite for Enterprise 10.2 Fix Pack 6:

• New role for Spectrum Scale monitoring:

o    When installed, this role allows users to see how much IBM Spectrum Scale IO their jobs are consuming.

• Shared Directory installation enhancements:

o    A Shared Directory installation now hosts all of the LSF binaries and configuration on an NFS or IBM Spectrum Scale filesystem.

• New install / re-install options:

o    Administrators now have the option of adding new servers, or re-installing old servers, selectively. This greatly shortens the time needed to change the hosts in the IBM Spectrum LSF Suite for Enterprise cluster.

• Inclusion of IBM HTTPd as a convenience for users wanting to use the IBM HTTPd as a load-balancer.

2.    Download location

Download from the following location: http://www.ibm.com/eserver/support/fixes/

3.    Product notifications:

To receive information about product solution and patch updates automatically, subscribe to product notifications on the My notifications page http://www.ibm.com/support/mynotifications/ on the IBM Support website (http://support.ibm.com). You can edit your subscription settings to choose the types of information you want to get notification about, for example, security bulletins, fixes, troubleshooting, and product enhancements or documentation changes.

4.    Products or Affected components

N/A

5.    System requirements

a.  On IBM Power hosts:

         i.  RHEL 7.3 LE 

       ii.  Ubuntu 16.04

      iii.  RHEL 7.4 LE (for IBM Power 9)

b.  On 64-bit x86 hosts:

         i.  RHEL 7.2 and up

       ii.  CentOS 7.3

      iii.  Microsoft Windows (LSF execution hosts only)

       iv.  RPM installation packages are not provided for Microsoft Windows. You must use the native installers to install the LSF execution hosts.

6.    Installation

a.  Download the LSF Suite installer (.bin file) from Fix Central

b.  Run the downloaded LSF Suite installer (.bin file).

c.  Deploy the updated LSF Suite installation by running the following command:
       ansible-playbook -i lsf-inventory lsf-upgrade.yml

7.    Copyright and trademark information

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