One of the most valuable of LSF's tool for developers is lsmake. lsmake is a modified version of GNU make which uses LSF to run make tasks in parallel on lightly loaded hosts.

Without LSF options, lsmake will choose the lightest loaded machine to make each target. In addition to the GNU options, lsmake supports options that control LSF:

-j <# of jobs>

This option controls the number of machines to start a concurrent task on. For example, lsmake -j 2 will make a target on two machines (not necessarily different machines) at once. Care should be taken that dependencies are set correctly, or lsmake may fail to make a target, since its dependency may not have finished being made.

-V

Be verbose. Display the list machines lsmake will use to make the targets, and for each target, display the machines the target is being built on.

-m <machine name>

Build targets on specified machine

For more information, see lsmake(1).