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Spectrum LSF

Request to add LicenseProject option to the reasons

Request to add License Project option to the reasons. We generally filter data by project / BU for finance, resource Usage / allocation, capacity planning etc. It will be helpful to have License Project option in all tabs including reasons.
about 20 hours ago in Spectrum LSF / Operations/RTM Submitted

Add multicluster and/or LWS remote cluster support to common LSF commands

Provide a uniform and/or consistent means/interface for users to use LSF commands to interact with remote clusters. Add remote cluster support to LSF commands commands. Specifically for LWS, recommend to embed "lsf command structure" within existi...
1 day ago in Spectrum LSF / End User UI/Applicaton Center Submitted

Limit number of job modifications with bmod

Hi,we allow the bmod/btop/bbottom commands for all users/jobs. However, we are facing 2 times the problem that the bmodbtop/bbottom command was extensively used e.g. on one job ID. This slows down the job scheduling interval massively up to a fail...
9 days ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling Future consideration

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

Resource Reservation Qualification

Provide a job attribute indicating whether a job qualifies for resource reservation (for example, when resource reservation is enabled for the queue). This will allow the customer plug-in to identify eligible jobs and reserve the required resour...
4 days ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling Submitted

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 ...
23 days ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling Under review

Compute node health in LSF ResourceMap

We would like to see the compute node health in ResourceMap as below. root@bsubexit1 conf]# bhosts -R "health==ok" HOST_NAME STATUS JL/U MAX NJOBS RUN SSUSP USUSP RSV bsubexit1 ok - 4 0 0 0 0 0 [root@bsubexit1 conf]# lsload -R "health==ok" HOST_NA...
30 days ago in Spectrum LSF / Operations/RTM Under review

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

Request for Enhancement of the LSF- Connector compatibility with Kubernetes after v1.20 (especially the latest version of Kubernetes like 1.36)

LSF- Connector is Working with Kubernetes 1.17 version but not working with the latest versions e.g., v1.36, I have tested with Kubernetes versions 1.26, 1.36(latest). But its seems to have compatibility issue. As I submitted the support case rega...
21 days ago in Spectrum LSF / Other Under review

Allow a job to request both Project Mode Fast Dispatch resources and Cluster Mode resources at the same time

Customers have demanding license requirements that vary over time. One of the requirements is that license reservation and allocation by cluster works fine in most cases, but for some important and constrained licenses, project mode is the way to ...
about 1 month ago in Spectrum LSF / License Management Under review