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Spectrum LSF

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Data Manager enhancement: Mark job as DONE after file reaches final destination

We want the main job to be marked as DONE only after the data file has been successfully transferred to the user-specified destination. Currently, with the integration of LSF and Data Manager, the main job is marked as DONE as soon as the 'bstage ...
about 18 hours ago in Spectrum LSF / Data Management 0 Under review

GSLA Resource Loaning - Add the ability to loan to specific users or projects

When a GSLA resource pool is defined for a specific type of workload, it is not practical or desirable to loan to just any other type of job profile. The work-a-round today is to include a resource limit definition to prevent this from occurring. ...
2 days ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 0 Under review

Include method to build ls_sim license files to required format

For LSF clusters that employ license scheduler... During the direct importing of a cluster configuration from the LSF Cognitive GUI, or when generating a tar.gz file for importing, build the license files into the ls_sim directory automatically, o...
7 days ago in Spectrum LSF / Simulation & Prediction 0 Under review

Set different requeue exit values for different hosts or hostgroups

Sometimes it would be helpful to set different requeue exit values for different hostgroups, something like (i.e. in lsb.applications):REQUEUE_EXIT_VALUES 138 linux_hosts 210 windows_hosts 127 which would trigger a requeue for jobs exiting with va...
8 days ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 0 Under review

Increase amount of characters in job description

This enhancement would enable us to store additional job attributes within each job record, such as specific flow information. By enriching the job metadata, machine learning algorithms can leverage this information to make more informed predictio...
9 days ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 0 Under review

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...
19 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...
19 days ago in Spectrum LSF / Cloud Bursting 1 Planned for future release

Keep in memory jobs killed over PTL (Pending Time Limit)

Hi, following suggestion in IBM support case. We see that jobs killed over PTL are immediately removed from LSF master memory so that even while a job ID was issued during submit, status check via bjobs/bhist does not find such job ID resulting in...
about 1 month ago in Spectrum LSF / Operations/RTM 0

"lim -t" phrases for aarch

Referring to TS018491466. We obtain the following architecture details by doing the $LSF_SERVERDIR/lim -t on the AARCH machines. AArch64Processorrev2aarch64 AArch64Processorrev1aarch64 AArch64Processorrev0aarch64 And this looks to not be in phrase...
about 2 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 0 Future consideration

LSF podman nvidia cdi mig mode support

Recently ,we are trying to integrate podman with nvidia gpu and lsf together per nvidia official document Installing the NVIDIA Container Toolkit — NVIDIA Container Toolkit, it suggests podman using CDI to read nvidia gpu device but when do integr...
about 2 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Other 1 Planned for future release