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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...
2 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Other 2 Future consideration

lsrun should support an access control list for authorized users

In our cluster, LSF users sometimes run an 'lsrun' and run jobs on the LSF Master!!!! This should never happen, it makes the stability of the LSF master at the mercy of random user jobs. We cannot turn this functionality off for all users, so an a...
12 days ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 0 Submitted

Enhance LSF daemon intellegent cpu binding

Currently Qualcomm manually configure LSF daemon cpu daemon cpu binding. They are looking to LSF intelligent daemon cpu bind feature. But using numa maps command, it doesn't show optimal allocation. Sometime the memory is not on the same numa.
16 days ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 0 Future consideration

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.
21 days ago in Spectrum LSF / License Management 0 Under review

Extend visibility of queue status for users

Our HPC users have requested the ability to see what is causing their jobs to pend in more detail. This includes what jobs/how may jobs are ahead of their in the queue, what resources their jobs are constrained on, etc. with other reasons their jo...
22 days ago in Spectrum LSF / Reporting/Explorer 0 Under review

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 ...
about 1 month ago in Spectrum LSF / Operations/RTM 0 Under review

Enhancement request to lsfproxyd

We have workfloads from dozen of users which continously generating very high and sustained job submission requests. Whenever they are starting their work, the grid may grind down to a halt or very slow to process any other request. We want a tier...
4 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Other 1 Future consideration

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 ...
10 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 2 Planned for future release

Add the Linux PAM support in LSF

Dear all, we have several applications unable to work properly when they are executed by launching Vnc jobs. We receive several dbus and dconf error messages which can be traced back to the fact that the directory /run/user/$uid isn’t found. This ...
over 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / End User UI/Applicaton Center 2 Not under consideration

Reduce the size of the initial outgoing UDP packet when a LIM restarts

The current implementation of the LIM sends a large initial UDP packet, which includes information about all the resources that are configured. When there is a network bottleneck that limits the size of UDP packets between the management host and ...
5 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Other 5 Needs more information