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Spectrum LSF

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Correct on Design Flaw in Session Scheduler

Currently the Session Manager and Service Director operate in the same CGROUP on the first execution host which causes a race condition that if a task on the first execution host pushes the memory use above the memory limit (aka mem-eater process)...
6 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 1 Not under consideration

In the world of Multi-core processors, the context switches per second has become a KPI. It should be a standard performance metric like mem, r1m, etc.

When we try to oversubscribe hosts, it would be very beneficial to have ctx/second available as a base metric. It's available in all OS' these days. We could set a busy threshold for that say above 40k/second. For the longest time (maybe 31 years)...
12 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 1 Not under consideration

Support LSF Windows ARM Based Execution Hosts

We would like to be able to install LSF Server on ARM based Windows machines for our Windows based simulation farms.
over 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Installation 1 Not under consideration

Adjust the priority of pending reason

If both license lack and limit(SLOTS, JOBS) reach together, the job pending reason shows license reason ONLY, not include limit. We want to adjust the priority of pending reason "limit(SLOTS, JOBS)" related pending reason is requested as high ...
6 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 1 Not under consideration

Implement Kerberos Constrained Delegation for LSF

currently LSF uses kerberos API "krb5_cc_retrieve_cred" to retrieve user TGT, details can be found:http://web.mit.edu/kerberos/krb5-latest/doc/appdev/refs/api/krb5_cc_retrieve_cred.html this API doesn't work for TGT created by constrained delegati...
over 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 1 Not under consideration

Permission model for Dashboards and Reports

In our environment, a few different teams will make use of different reporting capabilities in LSF Explorer in different scopes. Therefore they will be creating different reports and dashboards. So there is the need to introduce something like a p...
about 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Reporting/Explorer 2 Not under consideration

Enable option for hardcoding GPU memory request like its available for CPU memory request

At this moment IBM offers features of hardcoding CPU memory. We have implemented this feature in our cluster with esub scripting. Similarly we want to have same feature available for GPU memmory (gmem) to be hardcoded. I have raised ticket to our ...
about 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 2 Not under consideration

Add IBM LSF RTM alert interval by weekly basis

IBM Spectrum LSF RTM only have hours, daily basis of alert pop-up column could choose. For management of current alert aggregation, We need IBM to add this feature enhancement into RTM fix patch. Add weekly diagram basis of alert. It could sav...
over 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Operations/RTM 1 Not under consideration

When Cluster Collection is Down mark the various hosts as down in RTM

This helps brining attention to people who may not notice that the cluster collection is down
7 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Operations/RTM 1 Not under consideration

RTM Implementation Total GPU Wall time statistic.

RTM GPU Wall time statistic is limited to "only Finished Exclusive job has GPU wall time reported and it based on DCGM".We would like to see statistic for GPU wall time usage regardless job exist status and GPU mode. Also because GPUs are occupied...
about 3 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Operations/RTM 2 Not under consideration