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Spectrum LSF

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Eliminating swap as the factor in the threshold definition

Using the Smart Memory limits in LSF with the parameter "LSB_MEMLIMIT_ENF_CONTROL" , there should be an option to define inly MEM threshold and exclude the SWAP threshold.
almost 5 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Delivered

Data mover: option for "bstage in -all" to preserve source directory structure

"bstage in -all" copies all source files into the job working directory, ignoring the source directory structure. We would like to have the option to preserve the directory structure of the source files when transferred, for example using an addit...
over 7 years ago in Spectrum LSF 0 Delivered

Request ability to set the path to lmutil in Platform Analytics

Request the ability to set the path to lmutil in Platform Analytics for the flexlicusageloader data loader by setting a configuration parameter in flexlicusage.properties. This would make PA consistent with the LSF License Scheduler where the path...
over 6 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Delivered

Issue with data purging : Wastage of vertica license

As discussed in the PMR, due to bad design of data purging in PA 9, there are two issues 1. Wastage of vertica license i.e. at times data is retained in the DB even beyond data retention period defined in SYS_tables_to_parition. 2. PA admin has no...
about 9 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Delivered

Need to submit jobs from x86_64 systems to CORAL systems

The IBM supercomputer is only one part of the computing ecosystem in the center. We need the ability to submit jobs back into the cluster from other platforms in the center that are x86_64.
about 5 years ago in Spectrum LSF 0 Delivered

Enable the selection of any job data type to be a selectable filter in the Grid -> View Jobs Listing page in RTM

We manage our resources via resource pools that are allocated per service class. Therefore, we would like to view all jobs in a specific SLA. However, this data type is not selectable in the Grid -> View Jobs Listing page so we can't select thi...
over 9 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Delivered

Listening to jobstates

We submit our jobs to LSF with the LSF API (C++, lsbatch.h). Our software has to give a feedback to the users about the current state of the jobs. For this query we call lsb_readjobinfo for each active job in our list. It can take a long time to c...
over 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 0 Delivered

LSF blimits command new option

blimits -o option to list only relevant resource and consumer columns, because many are irrelevant with the value of "-"
almost 3 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 2 Delivered

Improve the performance of MBATCHD/MBSCHD when resolving invalid host name or host group name.

When using command to inquire information of invalid host or host group, LSF takes long time to response if DNS client enabled.
about 4 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Delivered

Adjustable Number of MPS Daemons for GPU Sharing

For now, IBM Spectrum LSF allows automatically instantiating one single MPS Daemon when requested through the '-gpu' directive:---gpu 'mps=yes:[...]'-- However, it has proved beneficial in several performance benchmarks conducted on different clie...
over 5 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Delivered