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Spectrum LSF

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Cluster level graph for used/total memory

Customer would like to have a RTM graph for cluster level avg Used/Total memory. Log on behalf of customer. Please contact youfeng.shen@shell.com
almost 4 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Delivered

expand -o options for bqueues

The current bqueues -o options are useful, and it would be helpful to add the resource limits (e.g., memlimit, cpulimit, etc.) as they currently require 'bqueues -l |grep -A1 LIMIT' to collect the information.
over 6 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 2 Delivered

Set a limit in the MC receive queue

TSMC is using MC to balance work load between clusters. When the submission cluster is busy, it forwards some jobs to execution clusters. The execution cluster has it's own workload except the forwarded jobs. To avoid the forwarded jobs occupy mos...
almost 4 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration / Cloud Bursting / Scheduling 1 Delivered

Provide lsmake parallel compilation tool for aarch64 systems.

Our engineers make wide-spread use of lsmake to parallelise their compilations across our x86 nodes, and wish to use the same toolset on aarch64 nodes.
over 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 0 Delivered

Add fields to bhosts -o output

Add total memory and memory reserved columns for bhosts -o option.
almost 3 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 1 Delivered

Data mover: option for "bstage in -all" to preserve source directory structure

"bstage in -all" copies all source files into the job working directory, ignoring the source directory structure. We would like to have the option to preserve the directory structure of the source files when transferred, for example using an addit...
over 8 years ago in Spectrum LSF 0 Delivered

Issue with data purging : Wastage of vertica license

As discussed in the PMR, due to bad design of data purging in PA 9, there are two issues 1. Wastage of vertica license i.e. at times data is retained in the DB even beyond data retention period defined in SYS_tables_to_parition. 2. PA admin has no...
almost 10 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Delivered

Request ability to set the path to lmutil in Platform Analytics

Request the ability to set the path to lmutil in Platform Analytics for the flexlicusageloader data loader by setting a configuration parameter in flexlicusage.properties. This would make PA consistent with the LSF License Scheduler where the path...
about 7 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Delivered

Enable the selection of any job data type to be a selectable filter in the Grid -> View Jobs Listing page in RTM

We manage our resources via resource pools that are allocated per service class. Therefore, we would like to view all jobs in a specific SLA. However, this data type is not selectable in the Grid -> View Jobs Listing page so we can't select thi...
about 10 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Delivered

Eliminating swap as the factor in the threshold definition

Using the Smart Memory limits in LSF with the parameter "LSB_MEMLIMIT_ENF_CONTROL" , there should be an option to define inly MEM threshold and exclude the SWAP threshold.
almost 6 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Delivered