IBM Spectrum LSF automation package is part of the HPC Clustering Services on IBM Cloud to enable users to stand up a HPC environment within minutes. LSF is an advanced workload management solution for demanding HPC environments. HPC cluster deployment starts with the definition of the desired cluster configuration; for example, count of management nodes, worker nodes, amount of storage and so on. Open-source technologies like Terraform and Ansible have been used to automate the provisioning and configuration of all associated IBM Cloud VPC resources and LSF.
In this section, you are using the IBM Spectrum LSF catalog tile (“LSF tile” for short) to create an HPC cluster in IBM Cloud and run an LSF job as you would on-premises. This includes the following steps: