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Spectrum LSF

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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, ...
2 months ago in Spectrum LSF / License Management 2 Planned for future release

Support combination of MIG and DCGM in GPUs with LSF

I got confirmation from dev team. Unfortunately, the combination of MIG and DCGM is not supported yet. So, for now, you cannot get job GPU information if MIG is enabled. You can raise an RFE on this matter so we can keep track of the request.
6 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Operations/RTM 1 Planned for future release

Add possibility to assign cores from the same CCX in AMD CPUs to make use of the same L3 cache.

With a specific 2-core workload we noticed significant performance improvements of about 50% in shorter runtime when both cores reside on the same L3 cache group (CCX) of an AMD EPYC CPU.Therefore it would be very beneficial to be able to have LSF...
almost 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 0 Planned for future release

Increase available number of global job ids for LSF

Current job id is limited to 32b. With ever growing number of jobs and scaling of multi-cluster use, the job id should be extended beyond 32b to avoid frequent rollover situations and/or cases of redundant ids. Recommend to increase to 64b or more.
3 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 0 Planned for future release

Affinity scheduling must take L3 cache hierarchy into account

Newer CPUs have multiple L3 caches, with dedicated cores per L3 cache. Running multi-threaded jobs on all cores within a shared L3 cache can reduce runtime in our cases up 70%, compared to running over multiple L3 caches. Think of the AMD EPYC 935...
7 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 2 Planned for future release

Regular expressions in calculated fields

For some raw-data fields like res_req or effective_res_req in the job_acct index, it is right now not possible to extract single parameters like the mem-parameter in the rusage section. This could be achieved by supporting regular expressions (reg...
9 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Reporting/Explorer 0 Planned for future release

Improve License Scheduler to be able to read the PID of the process from lmstat

License Scheduler has a big bug that is documented in ========================================= https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/spectrum-lsf/10.1.0?topic=notes-known-issues-limitations Same features cannot be merged to the tasks When a user submits mo...
about 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / License Management 4 Planned for future release

Better way of handling Azure authentication in the Resource connector

Currently, the only method of authentication in the resource connector involves storing the credentials in a credential file, specifically in the LSF AZURE_CREDENTIALS_FILE parameter within the Azure configuration file. However, storing credential...
11 days ago in Spectrum LSF / Cloud Bursting 1 Planned for future release

Enable support for image gallery in Azure resource connector

Enable support for image gallery in Azure resource connector. Currently, it only supports managed images, which is an outdated method. Microsoft doesn't recommend this, and most current technologies don't support it. All new features, such as Arm6...
11 days ago in Spectrum LSF / Cloud Bursting 1 Planned for future release

support job submission from standalone container

currently, when trying to submit a job from a standalone we have a eauth error: Oct 15 17:37:44 2024 1467470 3 10.1 isRetryErrorType: Error type <79> is not defined in LSB_BSUB_ERR_RETRY. Failed in an LSF library call: External authenticatio...
3 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Other 0 Planned for future release