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Spectrum LSF

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Enhance Session Scheduler Task Accounting File Options

Going over the available documentation on Session Scheduler, I’ve found a few gap under a single class of gap that will limit adoption, though I must say, the solution is not that far off from perfect. Main Issue: Unable to define a user/job speci...
about 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 1 Not under consideration

Extend Role-based access control to data columns

We are facing the need to limit access to certain data columns/fields in LSF Explorer for certain roles. In our environment a few different teams will make use of the reporting capabilities of LSF Explorer in different scopes. Nevertheless, LSF Ex...
about 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Reporting/Explorer 2 Not under consideration

To enable increase in the memory for a job when overall memory resource limit is in place in lsb.resources

Case#Case number TS001621460 can be referred for this RFE. Explanation was: I have discussed with development team again, currently, LSF can not satisfy the increase memory request by bmod command for a running job when there is a general limit de...
over 5 years ago in Spectrum LSF 0 Not under consideration

License Scheduler ENABLE_DYNAMIC_RUSAGE + FAST_DISPATCH combination

We are troubled by the slow dispatch time of jobs, when the license scheduler is involved. Even after lengthy optimization, the dispatch time remains at 10-25 seconds, which is not good. (note that LMSTAT time and interval is just 3 seconds). If t...
over 4 years ago in Spectrum LSF / License Management 0 Not under consideration

ssched jobs missing task information to calculate job run time

We graph job run time from the data in Elasticsearch provided from LSF Explorer. ssched jobs do not contain enough information to calculate job run time. We believe task jobs should contain the same data as regular LSF jobs
about 3 years ago in Spectrum LSF 3 Not under consideration

Enabling the Batch processing based on Compute Express Link CXL 3.0 or CXL 4.0 Fabrics

CXL 3.0 is built upon the IBM OpenCAPI, but CXL3 and CXL 4 have more speeds and will achieve the following: 1- Enabling the Interconnection between IBM LinuxONE and Exa scale AI Data Centers based on Nvidia DGX H100 based on Nvidia H100 GPUs and I...
about 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Other 1 Not under consideration

Adding heterogeneous processing CPUs, GPUs and FPGA Accelerator for Spectrum LSF

In the near future we will need more advanced distributed heterogeneous processing , We think it is better to take into consideration the Intel oneAPI and other tools like oneDNN, oneDAL ,...etc. It may need joining openPOWER foundation and IBM wi...
about 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Other 1 Not under consideration

Allow preemption of shared gpu jobs (j_exclusive=no) by higher priority job queues.

We need the LSF support for preemption of shared gpu jobs. Currently GPU preemption is supported only for jobs in mode j_exclusive=yes This is a very big problem as we have a significant waste of gpu memory resource. because if a lower priority jo...
about 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 1 Not under consideration

Reporting both host-based pending reason and main pending reason

"LSF does not support reporting both host-based pending reason and main pending reason (about license)." Let me provide a portion of the bsub statement from our case to exemplify the customer's dilemma. bsub -R "rusage[mem=3000.00:duration=1m,md_r...
about 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 1 Not under consideration

Availability of Max used License Scheduler managed license token in LSF job records

License Scheduler keeps updating LSF job records for the actual number of license tokens used by the job. At the end, only the last used value of the license token is kept in the job records. LSF should record the maximum number of token used by L...
over 3 years ago in Spectrum LSF / License Management 1 Not under consideration