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Increase available number of global job ids for LSF

Current job id is limited to 32b. With ever growing number of jobs and scaling of multi-cluster use, the job id should be extended beyond 32b to avoid frequent rollover situations and/or cases of redundant ids. Recommend to increase to 64b or more.
11 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 0 Planned for future release

watsonx.data - Confluence connector for watsonx.data Premium, web crawler and MCP server

The client has delineated 3 requirements to be able to proceed with PoC - 1. Confluence Connector for watsonx.data Integration Client requires a Confluence (on-prem) connector to enable ingestion into watsonx.data Premium. Lack of connector exclud...
4 months ago in watsonx.data 0 Under review

GSLA Resource Loaning - Add the ability to loan to specific users or projects

When a GSLA resource pool is defined for a specific type of workload, it is not practical or desirable to loan to just any other type of job profile. The work-a-round today is to include a resource limit definition to prevent this from occurring. ...
8 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 2 Future consideration

Implement a public API that will allow a user to provision an instance of watsonx.data on SaaS programmatically.

Ernst and Young is implementing a self-service portal for their users where they can easily pick and choose services that they would like to get provisioned via EY's infastructure called Fabric. This fabric is a layer that manages different hypers...
4 months ago in watsonx.data 0 Under review

Job packing on GPUs when MIG is enabled

When MIGs (Multi-instance GPU) are enabled on a multi-GPU server, LSF should pack jobs with smaller number of MIGs on one physical GPU to keep a room for jobs with larger number of MIGs. Currently LSF is distributing the jobs on different physical...
4 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 1 Planned for future release

Provide support for watsonx.data to consume data from Cloudera CDP Impala clusters protected by Kerberos.

Brazilian clients currently use Cloudera Hadoop clusters secured with Kerberos. We are facing challenges in demonstrating the value of watsonx.data in scenarios where Kerberos-enabled Cloudera workloads are required. Additionally, financial instit...
4 months ago in watsonx.data 0 Under review

Provide support for watsonx.data to consume data from Cloudera CDP Hive clusters protected by Kerberos.

Brazilian clients currently use Cloudera Hadoop clusters secured with Kerberos. We are facing challenges in demonstrating the value of watsonx.data in scenarios where Kerberos-enabled Cloudera workloads are required. Additionally, financial instit...
4 months ago in watsonx.data 0 Under review

Provide support for watsonx.data to consume data from Cloudera CDP Kafka clusters protected by Kerberos.

Brazilian clients currently use Cloudera Hadoop clusters secured with Kerberos. We are facing challenges in demonstrating the value of watsonx.data in scenarios where Kerberos-enabled Cloudera workloads are required. Additionally, financial instit...
4 months ago in watsonx.data 0 Under review

Limit Priority Over Time and Max User Priority by Queue

There are user workflows that require using priority to order flows and their execution. However, when priority over time is enabled, those methods break down. Using Priority Over Time to APS and Priority Queues is essential, but causes issues in ...
5 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 0 Future consideration

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...
about 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 2 Planned for future release