With the help of IBM Spectrum LSF, engineers, scientists and researchers can get their large jobs done faster than before. IBM Spectrum LSF becomes the necessary tool that you need to interact with for submitting, checking their jobs daily. One common problem is long running jobs that take hours, days, even weeks to finish. You cannot know the health of your jobs unless you log in to your office computer. If a job fails while you're away from your desk, you only find out when you come back to the office, then fix the problem and rerun the job, which wastes a lot of time.
The new release of IBM Spectrum LSF Application Center 10.2.0.9 enhanced a mobile client and a desktop client that can receive job notifications in real time. You can define when, where and whether to send notifications for a job at submission time and whether to download the result to specified desktop when job is done. You can leave important jobs running, and feel free to go to meetings, enjoy their weekend, or even start a long vacation confident that you can always know how your jobs are doing.
IBM Spectrum LSF Mobile Client 1.0.5 is a new version of mobile app that runs on latest iOS and Android devices. It allows you to manage your own jobs and get notification in your phone's notification center. The app is free to download from the Apple Store and the Google Play Store. The mobile client can connect to LSF 10.1 and earlier LSF 9.1.x releases.
In an iPhone or Android phone, find and download the app "LSF client" 
Open the app, and log in to IBM Spectrum LSF Application Center by providing the service URL, a user name and password. You can see a summary of your own jobs, and manage your jobs from within the app. To receive job notifications, it is not required to have the app running with an internet connection to the production LSF environment. The notification is delivered via the Apple push notification service and Google Cloud Messaging (GCM).
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Notification on Mobile Phone
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Notifications on Mobile Phones
You can tab on a job notification, and navigate to this LSF client app, where you can monitor and manage jobs, including suspend, kill, resume, rerun etc.
Manage jobs on Mobile Phone
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Manage jobs on Mobile Phone
LSF Desktop Client
A light weight application runs on your desktop, and integrates with Windows file explorer. Submit, manage and auto-download results for your own jobs easily, and receive notifications on the desktop. You can also run LSF commands on your desktop.
This light-weight desktop application you can run applications as LSF jobs in the same that you run them on a local desktop host. The same workflow hides all the details about remote environment settings, knowledge and so on. With this application, new users can use IBM Spectrum LSF without learning and training.
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Embed an LSF job into daily workflow without learning
In daily working life, you normally operate on files using Windows file explorer, including application input files and result files. Integrating LSF job input files and output files with Windows file explorer in your desktop allows you to submit LSF jobs and check the results easily. With the LSF Desktop Client installed, you can find application input files in the desktop Windows Explorer, right click on the file, then submit LSF job, exactly the same way you would open a file with the application locally.
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Submit a job within Windows explorer and get job done notification
After you submit an LSF job through the LSF Desktop Client, you can go on with other high priority tasks. When the LSF job is done, LSF Desktop Client automatically downloads the results to your local desktop, and sends notification to the desktop. From the notification, you can just click on the result file path to locate the result files in Windows file explorer, then do further processing accordingly.
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Find job result in local desktop
Conclusion
The new release IBM Spectrum LSF Application Center 10.2.0.9 gives you transparent access your jobs from anywhere, and notifies you whenever something goes wrong with the job. It also lets you start and run a job like a local job on Windows. You don't have to learn LSF commands or or worry about what's going on with remote computing environments.
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GEORGE GAO
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