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Spectrum LSF

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All LSF messages and errors outputs

Hello LSF team, It would be extermely helpful to get all the output messages and errors the LSF commands provide - standard commands such as bjobs, bsub, bkill, bconf and bmod. For example, in case of bconf when cluster needs to run badmin mbdrest...
about 14 hours ago in Spectrum LSF / Documentation 0 Submitted

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...
about 2 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Operations/RTM 1 Future consideration

for loadSched memory if the submitted job has memory reservation the job should not be run if the nodes mem used + job memory reservation > loadSched memory limit

because users want to keep a certain amount of memory free. And currently the limit can be bypassed.
13 days ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 0 Under review

RTM High Availability deployment

Provide deployable options for RTM components in High Availability configuration including web service, data collection and database.
13 days ago in Spectrum LSF / Operations/RTM 0 Under review

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.
28 days ago in Spectrum LSF / Operations/RTM 1 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...
2 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 2 Planned for future release

Connect license checkouts to jobs

Uniquely connect the license checkouts to jobs. The idea is to put a unique value into LM_PROJECT environmental variable and then get the LM_PROJECT value via lmstat using the -lm option to display the project value. This will allow LSF, LS and RT...
about 2 months ago in Spectrum LSF / License Management 1 Future consideration

Allow up to 2000 characters in TMPDIR

Some workflows require longer paths for TMPDIR.
about 2 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Other 6 Functionality already exists

Request is for ELIMS to be imported into LSF Simulator

Currently LSF Simulator only permits LIMS resources, not ELIMS. All LSF clusters use both LIMS and ELIMS therefore there why would Simulator only support LIMS resources and not ELIMS
about 2 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Simulation & Prediction 1 Not under consideration

Sleep processor

A user's job is to stay in an asleep/hung state, which shows RUN on the LSF side. (due to some zombie process) On the LSF side, I would be nice to have, if the process is in a sleep state for 10 minutes and then kill/stop the process/job. Having a...
28 days ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 1 Not under consideration