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Spectrum LSF

    to be able to modify a LSF job using alternative resources (-R with ||)

    Hello, When we try to modify a running using alternative resources, bmod is failing with following error message: Cannot change rusage to a new || (or) expression after the job was dispatched. This is a design limitation as we can see on the bmod ...
    6 days ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 0 Under review

    blimits command functionality improvements

    Affected: Administration and all users. Benefits: Provides clients with greater visibility into job availability and limitations, as well as a more dynamic way to allocate resources. Details: blimits functionality needs to be more encompassing. Gr...
    9 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Other 2 Future consideration

    Reduce bjgroup query sizes

    Reduce overall data payload for large cluster and heavy use of job groups
    16 days ago in Spectrum LSF / Other 0 Planned for future release

    Add LMSTAT_PATH parameter to each ServiceDomain

    Due to various compatibility issues between different flexlm version especially with 11.18 above, it is necessary to use the same lmstat version as the Vendor Daemon and thus the need to potentially configure each ServiceDomain with a different LM...
    2 months ago in Spectrum LSF / License Management 1 Not under consideration

    The LSF web service submits jobs to multiple clusters in a round-robin fashion.

    Combine all clusters into one logical supercluster.
    22 days ago in Spectrum LSF / Other 2 Functionality already exists

    Synchronous bstage out to guarantee data readiness for downstream jobs

    Currently, bstage out returns successfully after the transfer jobs have been submitted in DMD. However, in reality, the transfer jobs may take a significant amount of time to complete. The downstream job flow, meanwhile, assumes that the data is r...
    22 days ago in Spectrum LSF / Data Management 2 Needs more information

    First-Available Reservation Mode: reserve every alternative resource combination for the head-of-queue job and dispatch on whichever frees first

    Summary Add a scheduling/reservation mode in which the top-priority pending job (thenext job scheduled to run) reserves resources across ALL of its alternativeresource combinations simultaneously, rather than committing its reservationto a single ...
    4 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 1 Future consideration

    Compute node health in LSF ResourceMap

    We would like to see the compute node health in ResourceMap as below. root@bsubexit1 conf]# bhosts -R "health==ok" HOST_NAME STATUS JL/U MAX NJOBS RUN SSUSP USUSP RSV bsubexit1 ok - 4 0 0 0 0 0 [root@bsubexit1 conf]# lsload -R "health==ok" HOST_NA...
    4 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Operations/RTM 1 Needs more information

    Limit number of job modifications with bmod

    Hi,we allow the bmod/btop/bbottom commands for all users/jobs. However, we are facing 2 times the problem that the bmodbtop/bbottom command was extensively used e.g. on one job ID. This slows down the job scheduling interval massively up to a fail...
    3 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 1 Future consideration

    Value of 'Execution Host' column of the grid_bjobs view

    Display the current job host topology in the 'Execution Host' column of the 'Grid -> Job Info -> Details' view: x*host1,y*host2,z*host3:...) instead of MaxSlot@host1 where host1 is the 1st host assigned to the job where the initial command r...
    about 1 month ago in Spectrum LSF / Operations/RTM 0 Future consideration

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