Command Reference Guide

Platform LSF Command Reference 137
DISPATCH_WINDOWS
Dispatch windows are the time windows in a week during which jobs in the queue
may be dispatched.
When a queue is out of its dispatch window or windows, no job in this queue is
dispatched. Jobs already dispatched are not affected by the dispatch windows. The
default is no restriction, or always open (that is, twenty-four hours a day, seven days
a week). Note that such windows are only applicable to batch jobs. Interactive jobs
scheduled by LIM are controlled by another set of dispatch windows (see
lshosts(1)). Similar dispatch windows may be configured for individual hosts
(see
bhosts(1)).
A window is displayed in the format begin_time–end_time. Time is specified in the
format [day:]hour[:minute], where all fields are numbers in their respective legal
ranges: 0(Sunday)-6 for day, 0-23 for hour, and 0-59 for minute. The default value
for minute is 0 (on the hour). The default value for day is every day of the week. The
begin_time and end_time of a window are separated by ‘–’, with no blank characters
(SPACE and TAB) in between. Both begin_time and end_time must be present for a
window. Windows are separated by blank characters.
USERS A list of users allowed to submit jobs to this queue. LSF administrators can submit
jobs to the queue even if they are not listed here.
User group names have a slash (/) added at the end of the group name. See
bugroup(1).
If the fairshare scheduling policy is enabled, users cannot submit jobs to the queue
unless they also have a share assignment. This also applies to LSF administrators.
HOSTS A list of hosts where jobs in the queue can be dispatched.
Host group names have a slash (/) added at the end of the group name. See
bmgroup(1).
NQS DESTINATION QUEUES
A list of NQS destination queues to which this queue can dispatch jobs.
When you submit a job using
bsub -q queue_name, and the specified queue is
configured to forward jobs to the NQS system, LSF routes your job to one of the
NQS destination queues. The job runs on an NQS batch server host, which is not a
member of the LSF cluster. Although running on an NQS system outside the LSF
cluster, the job is still managed by LSF in almost the same way as jobs running
inside the LSF cluster. Thus, you may have your batch jobs transparently sent to an
NQS system to run and then get the results of your jobs back. You may use any
supported user interface, including LSF commands and NQS commands (see
lsnqs(1)) to submit, monitor, signal and delete your batch jobs that are running in
an NQS system. See
lsb.queues(5) and bsub(1) for more information.
ADMINISTRATORS A list of queue administrators. The users whose names are specified here are
allowed to operate on the jobs in the queue and on the queue itself. See
lsb.queues(5) for more information.