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Spectrum LSF

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add 'default account name' field for a user to store account used for LSF jobs submission & Licenses.

Hello, in current RTM version (v10.2.0.14), it's not possible to define a default account name (used to submit LSF jobs) per RTM user. Is it possible to add such field in the user record to ease the end-user usage. is it also possible, like for em...
7 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Operations/RTM 1 Future consideration

"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

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
about 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Other 0 Future consideration

Set license ownership per user

All users are assured one (1) license for interactive work. Customer has 100s of users. So, it is not practical to define each user as a leaf in a ProjectGroup.
3 months ago in Spectrum LSF / License Management 0 Future consideration

Implement initial memory reservation and res_req in jobInfoEnt structure

Hello, We can get initial memory reservation and initial res_req using bhist command but it can take a while.I have noticed that initial number of reserved CPUs is recorded in /sw/platform/lsf/10.1/include/lsf/lsbatch.h /*** \brief submit request ...
3 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Operations/RTM 0 Future consideration

add more columns for job export

from job details view, we can export current in file, but the list of avail columns of the RTM settings -> job export view is limited compared to what we can display in the job detail view and also what's avail in the DB table. Can you please e...
4 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Operations/RTM 0 Future consideration

Do not start jobs with less than X cores per host

It is useful for when ptiles or slots do not fulfill your needs. Using an example, we have an MPI code that requests 100 cores. We don't tell LSF how to grab those cores, and sometimes it will go out and span across 12 nodes, taking 19 cores on on...
4 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 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...
9 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 0 Future consideration

Resource connector provider configuration file ( such as cyclecloudprov_config.json) should have encrypted passwords/credentials

Security leak will be avioded. Clear text password are risky to put;.
over 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Cloud Bursting 0 Future consideration

Get available VM count value from cyclecloud provider for resource connector templates using badmin rc view -c templates command

It would be useful if quota from the Azure backend is completely used, LSF admins can easily check if VMs are available in the quota from Azure.
over 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 0 Future consideration

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