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

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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 OpenLava is a workload job scheduler for a cluster of computers. OpenLava was pirated from an early version of Platform LSF. Its configuration file syntax, application program interface (API), and command-line interface (CLI) have been kept unch ...

. In January, 2012,

Platform Computing Platform Computing was a privately held software company primarily known for its job scheduling product, Load Sharing Facility (LSF). It was founded in 1992 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada and headquartered in Markham, Ontario with 11 branch offices ...

was acquired by

.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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Sun Grid Engine Oracle Grid Engine, previously known as Sun Grid Engine (SGE), CODINE (Computing in Distributed Networked Environments) or GRD (Global Resource Director), was a grid computing computer cluster software system (otherwise known as a batch-queuing ...

HTCondor HTCondor is an open-source high-throughput computing software framework for coarse-grained distributed parallelization of computationally intensive tasks. It can be used to manage workload on a dedicated cluster of computers, or to farm out wor ...

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