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Spectrum LSF

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systemd service unit files for LSF

Currently, LSF provides init.d scripts to start/stop LSF services on the host. This work well for SysV based systems like RHEL6 but not so well with systemd based systems like RHEL7. systemd allows us to control boot time dependencies with more gr...
almost 8 years ago in Spectrum LSF 6 Delivered

LSF 10.x Docker integration: JOB_STARTER runs as root and does 'docker run -user <XXX>'

From: Khalid Ahmed Date: Wednesday, March 2, 2016 at 12:23 PMTo: "Miller, Michael D" Cc: John Toppa , Frank N Lee Subject: Re: Fw: Follow up items Hi Michael, It was nice meeting with you last week in Groton. We are glad to work with you to addres...
about 8 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Delivered

allow LSF administrators to extend max run time of queued and running jobs past the queue wallclock limit

See PMR 12578,L6Q,000. Cluster administrators should be able to extend the running time of jobs that were submitted to a queue with a walllclock limit. Currently there is no way to prevent a job from getting killed by queue wallclock limits.
about 8 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Delivered

Prevent LSF from dispatching jobs to problematic hosts consistently

Some jobs are dispatched to a host and failed because the communication between MBATCHD and SBATCHD is failed. The host keeps in OK status and the jobs keep dispatching to the host, which makes the job can not run for a long time. The communicatio...
over 8 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Delivered

many jobs pend due to "Just started a job recently".

1. the candidate hosts are sorted by CPU load; 2. do not dispatch jobs in a "pack" fashion, instead, "balance" fashion.
almost 9 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Delivered

Support resizable jobs for compound resource requests (RES_REQ) using blaunch (parallel jobs)

A job that has compound resources cannot be resized - why?=============================================== We use blaunch to launch jobs with the following resource requirements. Begin ApplicationNAME = core8DESCRIPTION = applications that need 1 H...
almost 9 years ago in Spectrum LSF 3 Delivered

Remove string length restrictions on resource requirement string to bsub

Our job submissions use quite complicated compound resource requirements. As our clusters increase in complexity we find our resource requirement strings used to bsub are becoming too long for the LSF limitation of 511 characters.
almost 9 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Delivered

To report Total & reserved & used memory graph through rpt_hardware_raw table

We would like to report graphically reserved, used, total memory by LSF cluster from rpt_hardware_raw table. There is MEM_REQ field in rpt_jobmart_raw table & is related to job but that doesn't give picture by LSF cluster.
over 9 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 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

When submitting a job to a CGROUPv2 Compatible System Modify cpu.shares based upon the task count requested by the job

LSF would support CGROUPv2 better, if it adjusted the number of CPU shares for a job based upon the number of cpus/tasks requested by the job.
over 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 3 Delivered