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Spectrum LSF

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IBM Spectrum LSF Application Center 10.2.0 | Enable single sign-on with SAML in Azure

Hi team, We are currently have LSF PAC on cloud environment and expect to integrate Azure AD into Application Center. As far as I know once submitted IBM ticket, they inform us that PAC is not verified with Azure AD, that may cause by signature (c...
over 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / End User UI/Applicaton Center 1 Future consideration

Dump configs to standardized format for cluster comparisons

We have multiple stand-alone clusters, and frequently have issues with something working differently in one as opposed to another. The solution from our side is to use something like ansible/chef/cfEngine to build the clusters, but for our existin...
over 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 0 Future consideration

Free up a job slot if lsfadmin suspends a job

We wold like to have the ability to free up a job slot when a lsfadmin suspends a job due to some valid reasons. In our case, we are trying to run a script to check if the user has reached the quota on their current run directory, and if they are ...
almost 4 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 2 Future consideration

badmin appclose/appopen for maintenance of a specific application

For maintenance reasons it would be helpful to close/open applications for dispatching like for queues and hosts by the command badmin qclose/qopen and badmin hclose/hopen respectively.
10 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 1 Future consideration

Affinity support for windows compute servers

We have a mixed Linux/Windows cluster. Unfortunately the affinity string in the resource requirement is not supported on Windows. This leads to several problems: 1. jobs with affinity settings will not be dispatched to windows nodes 2. less perfor...
10 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 1 Future consideration

Create a way to prevent a job with an SLA from using another SLA's hosts/slots/memory if the other SLA is under-committed

LSF hosts come and go, and when you create an allocation that uses exact numbers, there are times when a Pool can be over and under committed. In the case of an under-committed pool today, consumers from other pools can leverage free slots from th...
11 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 0 Future consideration

bacct command output should have GPU memory Usage details visible like CPU MEM usage

currently in bacct command output we could see below: Accounting information about this job: Share group charged </hkorva> CPU_T WAIT TURNAROUND STATUS HOG_FACTOR MEM SWAP1844603.00 0 73687 done 25.0329 171.1G 2M if the job is a GPU job then...
11 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 0 Future consideration

Allow Session Scheduler to support the queue level Job Starter when the Session Spreads to Multiple Hosts

In testing of Session Scheduler, it works perfectly, on secondary hosts, it does not seem to respect our job starter which will limit our ability to deploy Session Scheduler more broadly. Closing this gap is important.
11 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 0 Future consideration

Add user group filter for bacct and bhist

To evaluate jobs w.r.t. user groups/fair share groups I would like to have a filter for user groups in bacct and bhist similar to the option -G of bjobs.
11 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Reporting/Explorer 0 Future consideration

bjobs should show LIMITs ( MEMLIMIT / RUNLIMIT ) from queues or applications, please improve it.

Currently LIMITs settings ( MEMLIMIT / RUNLIMIT ) from queues or applications did NOT show in "bjobs -l" output, only job-level setting did. But the LIMITs are still effective in job environment, so it may deliver wrong information to user until j...
11 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 0 Future consideration