IBM Spectrum LSF 10.1

IBM Spectrum LSF, developed by IBM Corporation, is an enterprise workload management and job scheduling platform for high-performance computing and AI. It orchestrates compute-intensive workloads across on-premises, cloud, and hybrid environments to improve throughput, resource utilization, and time to results.

Key capabilities include:

• Policy-driven scheduling (fairshare, backfill, preemption, SLAs, and reservations)
• Multi-cluster management and elastic scaling with cloud bursting to major public clouds
• GPU- and accelerator-aware scheduling and license-aware job placement
• Support for parallel workloads (MPI), job arrays, and complex workflows
• Container integration with Docker and Apptainer/Singularity
• Self-service web portal and APIs, plus CLI and GUI tools
• Monitoring, reporting, and visualization through IBM Spectrum LSF RTM and Application Center
• Integration with IBM Spectrum Scale and other ecosystem tools, with high availability and role-based access control

Common use cases span engineering simulation, life sciences, electronic design automation, financial risk modeling, academic research, and AI/ML training.

IBM Spectrum LSF is developed by IBM Corporation. The most popular version of this product among our users is 10.1.