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Spectrum LSF

Add Configurable Recall-to-Forward Delay for Multi-Cluster Scheduling

In a Multi-Cluster environment, once a job is forwarded to a remote cluster, it effectively remains there until it is scheduled or completed. As a result, the submission cluster may later have available resources that the job is unable to utilize....
3 days ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling Submitted

AMD GPU Integration

We are experiencing problem with displaying the correct number of AMD GPUs which are assigned to a LSF job. Even though we request 1 GPU and LSF sets correctly the ROCR_VISIBLE_DEVICES=0 the command amd-smi displays all of them. We are able to use...
3 days ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling

blimits command functionality improvements

Affected: Administration and all users. Benefits: Provides clients with greater visibility into job availability and limitations, as well as a more dynamic way to allocate resources. Details: blimits functionality needs to be more encompassing. Gr...
4 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Other Future consideration

Request span[hosts=1] parameter support in ec2 fleet dynamic slot based capacity. We cannot use spot with right sizing with slot based capacity since our job will not support running across multiple hosts.

We would like to us Spot instances in AWS using ec2 fleet and LSF. We would like to use Dynamic capacity (weighted capacity)from ec2 fleet to choose right instance size. This works with slot based capacity. the moment we use span[hosts=1] paramete...
10 days ago in Spectrum LSF / Cloud Bursting Submitted

Affinity compaction / defragmentation

I propose to have automated compaction and defragmentation for jobs dispatched with affinity. Reducing fragmentation will allow more larger jobs to start in the same Numa node (or AMD CCX), having better performance. Ideally this runs automaticall...
12 days ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling Under review

Update gridqueues to modify the member hosts bye the select[] clause at the queue level.

The gathering of hosts for the queue level only looks at the HOSTS section, but for customers who use a SELECT[] clause to reduce the queue list the graphs are less meaningful. It's better to reduce the set by passing the RESREQ to the options whe...
15 days ago in Spectrum LSF / Operations/RTM Under review

Implement support for Kerberos Cache Manager

sssd deployed on rhel defaults to using the Kerberos Cache Manager to store kerberos tickets/tgts. I would be nice to not have to alter the default configuration on rhel 9 and newer. kcm from what i have read should also be more secure.
18 days ago in Spectrum LSF / Operations/RTM Under review

lsfproxyd: Enhancements for User-Level Rate Limiting and Command-Level Policy Control

We have evaluated lsfproxyd for rate limiting in our LSF cluster environment and identified key feature gaps. We are requesting the following enhancements to make lsfproxyd viable for our requirements. Requested Enhancements: 1. User-Level Rate Li...
22 days ago in Spectrum LSF / Other Under review

Change default settings for a few retry parameters to LSF proxyd

job submission contacts LSF proxyd to get token, this communication may fail for whatever reason but LSF proxyd provided following three retry tunings.LSF_PROXYD_TOKEN_WAIT_TIME LSF_PROXYD_NTRIES LSF_PROXYD_NOTOKEN_NTRIES Qualcomm would like to se...
2 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Other Not under consideration

Job IDLE Detection (JOB_IDLE in lsb.queues) need "differential" idle detection

Sometimes we see interactive jobs that after some computation time (e.g. of several hours)the computation is finished and they (might) wait for a user interaction. So the job essentiallydoes nothing but keeping the LSF job running and resources al...
about 2 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration Under review

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