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Spectrum LSF

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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...
5 days ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 0 Submitted

Allow for blocklist for lsfproxyd to persist through reboots.

When lsfproxyd restarts, the block list is removed. If the block list was not dumped before or accidentally restarted the lsfproxyd daemon, blocked trouble users can cause problems in the cluster again.
13 days ago in Spectrum LSF / Operations/RTM 0 Future consideration

Reduce the size of the initial outgoing UDP packet when a LIM restarts

The current implementation of the LIM sends a large initial UDP packet, which includes information about all the resources that are configured. When there is a network bottleneck that limits the size of UDP packets between the management host and ...
20 days ago in Spectrum LSF / Other 3 Needs more information

Update calculation for "Total CPUs" field in RTMweb grid_clusterdb.php to sum of cores*nprocs from sum of maxCPUs

Need to see the total number of CPU cores aggregation correctly.
26 days ago in Spectrum LSF / Operations/RTM 0 Under review

Add RTM support for Oracle Linux 9

Support for Oracle Linux 9
26 days ago in Spectrum LSF / Operations/RTM 1 Not under consideration

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

Update the Open Source CLI commands package

Having this makes it easier to build interfaces to the data.
about 2 months ago in Spectrum LSF / End User UI/Applicaton Center 0 Future consideration

allow bresize request on job using affinity string.

due to AMD Zen arch processor, we plan to use affinity string for all jobs to force job processes to run into the smallest number of ccd, to improve performance. but bresize increase command refuse to work when an affinity string is present in the...
2 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 1 Future consideration

Feasibility to kill the jobs if they are submitted directly in the remote cluster for multi cluster scenario

We can see remote cluster jobs with "bjobs -m <clustername> ..." from another cluster that is a member of MC, no matter the jobs are forwarded to remote cluster or submitted directly in the remote cluster, but we cannot kill the jobs if they...
3 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Cloud Bursting 1 Future consideration

LSF must not ignore empty groups if they are managed by egroup

When running `badmin reconfig`, LSB ignores lines with empty groups: Aug 25 16:22:20 2025 11385 4 10.1 do_Groups: File /opt/lsf/conf/lsbatch/XXXX/configdir/lsb.users at line 50: No valid member in group <XXXX>; ignoring line this is ok for g...
3 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Other 1 Needs more information