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LSF to track and report IO usage per job

Disk space is a valuable resource like memory or GPU/CPU/slots. Many IC design applications consume significant disk space when writing simulation results to disk. Tracking disk usage or I/O rate **PER JOB** will allow cluster administrators to mo...
7 days ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 0 Submitted

Make it possible to use relative paths, environment variables, and clustername in #include paths

Currently, there is no way to say add a file in the lsb.queues file as using any of these patterns: #include "./lsb.queues.cloud" #include "/some/path/{{ cluster }}/lsb.queues.cloud" #include "$LSF_ENVDIR/lsb.queues.cloud" Having support with any ...
about 1 month ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 1

Queue level cgroup enablement

Hi - we have a large cluster that services many different types of workloads. To better "bucket" these workloads, we have queues set up with rules that define how the jobs must run (or be submitted). One problem we have is that some of the workloa...
3 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 1 Future consideration

bhist - Add support for customized output format ("-o" option)

Some LSF CLI commands support customized output format ("-o" option). For example, bjobs command:bjobs -o "JOBID USER JOB_NAME START_TIME" Currently "bhist" command doesn't support "-o" parameter and it would be appreciated if it can be added in t...
4 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 1 Future consideration

Adding one more field [JobID] to "badmin diagnose -c query" output

If users execute query commands in LSF batch job, it can overload the LSF master server and degrade its performance. To address this, we need a new field for job IDs to expedite the identification of problematic jobs. And the requirement is to add...
5 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 1 Not under consideration

"lim -t" phrases for aarch

Referring to TS018491466. We obtain the following architecture details by doing the $LSF_SERVERDIR/lim -t on the AARCH machines. AArch64Processorrev2aarch64 AArch64Processorrev1aarch64 AArch64Processorrev0aarch64 And this looks to not be in phrase...
8 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 0 Future consideration

Sleep processor

A user's job is to stay in an asleep/hung state, which shows RUN on the LSF side. (due to some zombie process) On the LSF side, I would be nice to have, if the process is in a sleep state for 10 minutes and then kill/stop the process/job. Having a...
about 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 1 Not under consideration

The ability to view hosts assigned to queues of the same name in the remote cluster when querying bqueues -l

In a multi-cluster environment,When there is a queue of the same name between the local cluster and the remote clusterI hope the local cluster will see HOSTS information of the same name queue of the remote cluster. In a multi-cluster environment,...
about 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 1 Not under consideration

bhosts <single hostname@remote_clustername>

In a multi-cluster environment,bhosts does not support specifying single hostname of remote cluster. projectjiwoo@vwpm224ev16 ~ % bhosts hpcmgr0007hpcmgr0007: Bad host name, host group name or cluster name If we run bhosts <single hostname@remo...
about 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 1 Not under consideration

bhist json format output, similar to bjobs -json

Programatically parsing bhist output takes effort and susceptible to occasional changes across versions. json format output similar to bjobs -json would ease the handling of bhist output through scripts.
about 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 1 Future consideration