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Spectrum LSF

Value of 'Execution Host' column of the grid_bjobs view

Display the current job host topology in the 'Execution Host' column of the 'Grid -> Job Info -> Details' view: x*host1,y*host2,z*host3:...) instead of MaxSlot@host1 where host1 is the 1st host assigned to the job where the initial command r...
2 days ago in Spectrum LSF / Operations/RTM 0 Submitted

Show license conflict for jobs running

In the job view, license usage tab, show conflicting jobs for current usage, not only for historic usage.Add the 'Conflicts' column and also, if possible, the 'Conflicting Jobs' column.
2 days ago in Spectrum LSF / Operations/RTM 0 Submitted

ease the add (and remove) of new type of metadata

useful to manage other metadata that the ones already defined: LSF user extra limit & TTL, license quota, etc ... currently, we must update several scripts & conf files to add (or remove) other metadata type than the built-in ones.
2 days ago in Spectrum LSF / Operations/RTM 0 Submitted

enable logout when logged using SSO

when SSO enabled on RTM, no way to logout. for the RTM admin, it become impossible to logon (admin account)!
2 days ago in Spectrum LSF / Operations/RTM 0 Submitted

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

Add LMSTAT_PATH parameter to each ServiceDomain

Due to various compatibility issues between different flexlm version especially with 11.18 above, it is necessary to use the same lmstat version as the Vendor Daemon and thus the need to potentially configure each ServiceDomain with a different LM...
about 1 month ago in Spectrum LSF / License Management 1 Not under consideration

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....
4 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 0 Planned for future release

Ascertain Reservable Numeric Shared resources inside custom plugin

We are using a custom LSF scheduler plugin for scheduling purposes. We plan to use the pre reservation (greedy in particular) feature. Here, some numeric shared resources are to be marked as reservable in LSF configuration (such numeric resources ...
18 days ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 2 Under review

First-Available Reservation Mode: reserve every alternative resource combination for the head-of-queue job and dispatch on whichever frees first

Summary Add a scheduling/reservation mode in which the top-priority pending job (thenext job scheduled to run) reserves resources across ALL of its alternativeresource combinations simultaneously, rather than committing its reservationto a single ...
2 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 1 Future consideration

Improve handling of long running lmstat

Currently, the LM_STAT_TIMEOUT parameter handling both lmstat connection time out (via lmstat -t < LM_STAT_TIMEOUT > and the length of time blcollect allows lmstat to run before termination. There should be two parameters to configure: 1) lm...
about 1 month ago in Spectrum LSF / License Management 1 Future consideration