Administering Platform LSF - SAS

Creating Custom echkpnt and erestart for Application-level Checkpointing
Configuring LSF to recognize the custom echkpnt and erestart
You can set the following parameters in lsf.conf or as environment
variables. If set in lsf.conf, these parameters apply globally to the cluster and
will be the default values. Parameters specified as environment variables
override the parameters specified in lsf.conf.
If you set parameters in lsf.conf, reconfigure your cluster with lsadmin
reconfig and badmin mbdrestart so that changes take effect.
1 Set LSB_ECHKPNT_METHOD=method_name in lsf.conf or as an
environment variable
OR
When you submit the job, specify the checkpoint and restart method. For
example:
% bsub -k "mydir method=myapp" job1
2 Copy your echkpnt.method_name and erestart.method_name to
LSF_SERVERDIR.
OR
If you want to specify a different directory than LSF_SERVERDIR, in
lsf.conf or as an environment variable set
LSB_ECHKPNT_METHOD_DIR= absolute path to the directory in which
your echkpnt.method_name and erestart.method_name are located.
The checkpoint method directory should be accessible by all users who
need to run the custom echkpnt and erestart programs.
3 (Optional)
To save standard error and standard output messages for echkpnt.
method_name and erestart.method_name set
LSB_ECHKPNT_KEEP_OUTPUT=y in lsf.conf or as an environment
variable.
The stdout and stderr output generated by echkpnt. method_name
will be redirected to:
❖ checkpoint_dir/$LSB_JOBID/echkpnt.out
❖ checkpoint_dir/$LSB_JOBID/echkpnt.err
The stdout and stderr output generated by erestart.method_name
will be redirected to:
❖ checkpoint_dir/$LSB_JOBID/erestart.out
❖ checkpoint_dir/$LSB_JOBID/erestart.err
Otherwise, if LSB_ECHKPNT_KEEP_OUTPUT is not defined, standard
error and output will be redirected to /dev/null and discarded.
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