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Spectrum LSF

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bkill command enhancement

We need to use bkill command to kill a specific user's pending jobs. However, there's no such a option for bkill.
about 3 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 3 Delivered

Provide lsmake parallel compilation tool for aarch64 systems.

Our engineers make wide-spread use of lsmake to parallelise their compilations across our x86 nodes, and wish to use the same toolset on aarch64 nodes.
6 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 0 Delivered

bjobs -o all

Currently there is a large list of -o options, which are hugely beneficial. We have a large bjobs -o <long list> -json report that is frequently run for metrics and query reduction (to provide an API to get cached data) but we have to update...
about 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Data Management 3 Delivered

json output for "badmin lsfproxyd status"

The new solution LSFProxyd does not dump status in json file. This RFE is to enable json output of "badmin lsfproxyd status" command.
8 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 1 Delivered

Enable DataManager to work properly when LSF usermapping is in place

When jobs were submitted with -data option and an account mapping is existing between the submission and execution cluster (MC) DM is not able to retrieve the data correctly.
almost 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Other 1 Delivered

Allow Stacking/Overloading of Host Closure Events

Allow the stacking of closure events. In other words, make it permissible for LSF to track multiple closure events, and release those closure events systematically.
about 6 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Delivered

Telemetry for LSF scheduler performance

LSF struggles in large farms with many running pending jobs and thousands of users in fairshare tree. LSF's struggle with heavy query activity is well documented. It would be great if LSF can provide telemetry on its own performance and what speci...
9 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 2 Delivered

Add lsb.params setting to limit the number of times a job can be redispatched upon either a pre-exec failure of job initilization failure

We currently have jobs that will bounce from host to host either based upon a pre-exec failure, or a job initialization failure. This can impact > 500 hosts and cause an increase in MBD memory use. It would be nice to have a setting such as: MA...
over 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 0 Delivered

weighted throttling in lsf proxyd

From the documentations it seems, LSF Proxyd does not differentiates between a service account vs an individual user account and can't have diff policies for diff user accounts. Our farms have a good mix of service accounts which launch thousands ...
9 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 2 Delivered

LSF integration with latest DCGM

LSF provides integration with DCGM so that GPU usage data can be collected in lsb.acct log file. However, the latest LSF only supports DCGM v1.7.2, which goes with CUDA10.For customs like us, we used CUDA11, which needs DCGM v2.1.4, and we would l...
about 3 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Delivered