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Spectrum LSF

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Affinity scheduling must take L3 cache hierarchy into account

Newer CPUs have multiple L3 caches, with dedicated cores per L3 cache. Scheduling multi-threaded jobs on all cores with a shared L3 cache can reduce runtime in our cases up 70%. Think of the AMD EPYC 9354 processor.
5 minutes ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 0 Submitted

Keep job in memory for a specified time period

Allow job to be kept in memory for an extended amount of time beyond global setting
7 days ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 0 Future consideration

Improve bsub rejection messages for troubleshooting

Improve the error messages returned from bsub failiure. For example, provide the rusage string and potentially specified what is wrong with rusage. Here is current failure message: Error in rusage section. Job not submitted.
21 days ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 0 Future consideration

Add job group filter to bhist

The ability to find job groups via bhist command after the jobs have been removed from memory.
21 days ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 0 Future consideration

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...
2 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Reporting/Explorer 0 Future consideration

Enable the copy - paste functions from local PC to VNC graphical sessions opened within the Application Center (PAC) portal

Copy and paste functions from local PC to VNC sessions are crucial to work in a smooth way. These functionalities are not available in the PAC portal product. Copy /paste "echo hello" from notepad opened locally on the PC to VNC terminal in PAC wi...
8 months ago in Spectrum LSF / End User UI/Applicaton Center 1 Not under consideration

Make vm_type details in lsb. Acct file

vm_type is field is available only on event file . Can this be made available for Acct file as well? We extract lot of job information from Acct file so it will be good if we get vm_type details in the same file
5 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Other 0 Future consideration

LSF job query filter on pending jobs without providing pending reasons

For large LSF clusters, the bjobs command takes significant time to gather the pending reasons (-p, -pei, -pe, -pi) making the query much longer than requesting all jobs. Suggest a new bjobs option to filter on pending jobs without supplying the p...
about 1 month ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 0 Future consideration

Add Column PSUSP to Job Group Output and Allow Filtering by Name Similar to Job Name filtering in "bjobs"

For our user community, Jobs that go into PSUSP are important for the flow owners to investigate and our flow owners are using Job Groups. The inability to easily see the number of Jobs that are in PSUSP is limiting the effectiveness in the use of...
about 1 month ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 0 Future consideration

Please provide a bresources option where we can find the default reservation unit per defined resource: job, task, host

Currently, it's not strait forward for a user to be able to see what the default reservation units are for things like memory, swap, license resources, etc. It would be nice if there were a bresources option to show the default allocation unit's f...
about 2 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 0 Future consideration