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Spectrum LSF

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

Combine all clusters into one logical supercluster.
about 5 hours ago in Spectrum LSF / Other Under review

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...
about 5 hours ago in Spectrum LSF / Data Management Under review

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...
12 days ago in Spectrum LSF / Operations/RTM Future consideration

Show license conflict for jobs running

In the job view, license usage tab, show conflicting jobs for current usage, not only for historic usage.Add the 'Conflicts' column and also, if possible, the 'Conflicting Jobs' column.
12 days ago in Spectrum LSF / Operations/RTM Future consideration

ease the add (and remove) of new type of metadata

useful to manage other metadata that the ones already defined: LSF user extra limit & TTL, license quota, etc ... currently, we must update several scripts & conf files to add (or remove) other metadata type than the built-in ones.
12 days ago in Spectrum LSF / Operations/RTM Future consideration

enable logout when logged using SSO

when SSO enabled on RTM, no way to logout. for the RTM admin, it become impossible to logon (admin account)!
12 days ago in Spectrum LSF / Operations/RTM Planned for future release

Ascertain Reservable Numeric Shared resources inside custom plugin

We are using a custom LSF scheduler plugin for scheduling purposes. We plan to use the pre reservation (greedy in particular) feature. Here, some numeric shared resources are to be marked as reservable in LSF configuration (such numeric resources ...
28 days ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling Future consideration

Add a new bjobs filter about CPU

Hello, Bjobs is providing information about MEMORY and CPU usage. Example:bjobs -o "jobid cpu_peak average_cpu_efficiency cpu_peak_reached_duration" 9242578 JOBID CPU_PEAK AVERAGE_CPU_EFFICIENCY CPU_PEAK_REACHED_DURATION 9242578 1.22 2.58% 65 seco...
about 1 month ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration Future consideration

Add an option to `bjobs` to list pending jobs in their Fairshare scheduling dispatch order

the statement on https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/spectrum-lsf/10.1.0?topic=bjobs-description#bjobs_output__title__2, that "Pending jobs are displayed in the order in which they are considered for dispatch", does not apply in the case of Fairshare sche...
about 1 month ago in Spectrum LSF / Simulation & Prediction Future consideration

Add global radio buttons under "edit profile--> users(tab)->Username --> RTM settings (tab) --> adjust the option in the "users show users column"

Under "head and shoulders->edit profile--> users(tab)->Username --> RTM settings (tab)" there are multiple sections each with its own togglable options. If an admin wants to toggle all or some of these sections for all users then they ...
about 2 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Operations/RTM Future consideration