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Now that I submitted 100s of jobs I realized that I don't won't them to run after all, how do I kill them all?
All the jobs listed when you use the bjobs command can be removed by doing the following:
-bash-3.2$ bkill 0
The contributed nodes often seem idle. How do I use them if I am not in a particular contributed node queue user group?
There are three queues that will make use of all compute nodes. The Public Shared queues allow job placement to all nodes via LSF. When contributed nodes are idle and there are many jobs already in the normal or long queue, use of the Public Shared queues will likely land your jobs on idle contributed nodes. See above table for corresponding Public Shared queue names and properties. For more detail on a particular queue:
-bash-3.2$ bqueues- l short_all
How can I submit jobs to LSF on the cluster from my workstation without actually logging into the cluster?
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