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Spectrum LSF

Consider AMD ccd/l3 cache in affinity string

Hello, Currently, using affinity string, we can target a core, a numa, a socket or memory, but not an AMD CCD (Core Complex Dies, L3 cache shared by 8 or 16 cores) Allowing jobs requesting less cores than available in a CCD (8 or 16 currently) to ...
11 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling Planned for future release

Support for Restricting Specific Command Options with values

Currently, the commands.json configuration supports restricting command options only when they are specified without associated values. It does not support restricting options that include values (e.g., -u all in bjobs). This limitation prevents s...
about 1 month ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration Planned for future release

Support for User Groups in user Field of esecurity.json

Currently, the user field in the esecurity.json configuration only supports individual usernames and does not allow specifying user groups. This limitation makes it difficult to manage access control efficiently in environments with a large number...
about 1 month ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration Planned for future release

Job query LSF API should have a filter to control number of finished jobs returned by mbatchd in order to shorten runtime of RTM gridjobs poller

RTM gridjobs poller queries LSF for job information periodically. LSF CLEAN_PERIOD is set to 6hr, 12hr, 24hr for different clusters in Microsoft, number of finished jobs in mbatchd memory ranges from 200K to 1M. gridjobs parses finished jobs info ...
3 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Operations/RTM Planned for future release

use LM_PROJECT to make relationship between jobs & licenses

make robust relationship between jobs & licenses, easing reporting/monitoring & helping License Scheduler to manage corresponding resources.
2 months ago in Spectrum LSF / License Management Planned for future release

Lifecycle management of logs in LSF license scheduler

LSF License Scheduler generates blcollect.log and bid.log, and these logs increase over time. Since the license scheduler does not provide a log management feature, when the logs become too large, the administrator must move the files. Of course, ...
about 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / License Management Planned for future release

improve bconf .

we have a large lsf cluster which contains many usergroup with fairshares. so every time we want to use bconf to update usershares, it would take 3 mins to complete and during process, the mbatchd is not responding. all detail you can refer to bel...
4 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration Planned for future release

Convert lsfpollerd, licpollerd, and advocate to system managed service with Restart set to always

SysV init.d scripts are rather old, and do not support the monitoring and restart capabilities in systemd. So, convert these init.d scripts to systemd support and add the Restart option so that admins are comfortable knowing that the operating sys...
5 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Operations/RTM Planned for future release

Request for configuration parameter “HNAME_MAX_NUM” to limit the number of hname conditions in RES_REQ.

In production environment, automated scripts (for example, Synopsys CDPL) generate very long RES_REQ strings with thousands of (hname!='hostX') conditions in the select clause, which has led to mbatchd/mbschd performance degradation and scheduling...
5 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration Planned for future release

Make it possible to have a backup directory other than /tmp

In some cases, /tmp is not large enough to hold RTM backups. We need an alternate path, in NFS even to store as the temporary backup location for the RTM database backup.
6 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Operations/RTM Planned for future release

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