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Cloud Bursting

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Forward, without local processing, bsub options to remote clusters

In multi-cluster scenarios, there should be no expectation that all the clusters are configured the same and/or support the same resources, slas, architectures, etc. Currently, when launching jobs with -sla, -m, and other options, the local schedu...
5 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Cloud Bursting 1 Future consideration

LSF Resource Connecter should allow start/stop of *existing* AWS VMs.

We have procedural limitations with creating new instances in AWS on-demand by LSF Resource Connector (RC) for security reasons. Our preference would be to create instances ahead of time and let LSF RC start and stop the instances based on demand....
over 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Cloud Bursting 3 Functionality already exists

blaunch to handle resized jobs

In a dynamic cluster cloud environment, blaunch cannot handle resizing of the jobs. We are requesting for the addition and deletion of hosts from an LSF cluster with blaunch able to handle the network IO and exit with the return code from the job'...
about 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Cloud Bursting 1 Not under consideration

Resource connector provider configuration file ( such as cyclecloudprov_config.json) should have encrypted passwords/credentials

Security leak will be avioded. Clear text password are risky to put;.
about 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Cloud Bursting 0 Future consideration

Have launchTemplateId/Instance template for LSF Google Resource Connector work the same as if launching from Google cli/portal

Google LSF Resource Connector has the option to launch VMs based off Instance Template feature of GCP thru the launchTemplateId field in googleprov_templates.json. There is additional flexibility in being able to override settings defined in the I...
over 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Cloud Bursting 0 Future consideration

Enable more dynamic tags in LSF resource connector

Currently in Resource connector only one dynamic tag called "RC_ACCOUNT" is enabled but we would like to have more such dynamic tags which can be used along with bsub command.Example;Current tag takes only " -P project_name" as a dynamic tag . But...
over 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Cloud Bursting 1 Not under consideration

RC_Account visibility in RTM Job Info fields

IBM LSF Resource Connector has gone through many enhancements, like job level RC_Account. However, this field is not visible in RTM. This new filed should be added in RTM job information.
almost 4 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Cloud Bursting / Operations/RTM 5 Not under consideration