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Ability to reserve GPUs in LSF advanced reservations

It's currently not possible to reserve GPUs in an advanced reservation with LSF, unlike CPUs (slots) and memory. For example, we have some hosts with 120 CPU slots and 8 GPUs. I want to create a reservation that reserves half of a node. I can do t...
11 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 0 Future consideration

Affinity support for windows compute servers

We have a mixed Linux/Windows cluster. Unfortunately the affinity string in the resource requirement is not supported on Windows. This leads to several problems: 1. jobs with affinity settings will not be dispatched to windows nodes 2. less perfor...
over 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 1 Future consideration

LSF to track SSH and child processes on machines running LSF jobs

To prevent users from sshing into nodes that they do not have a running job on, to restrict the SSH session to the resources that the runing job has on the machine (e.g. cgroups ), to track the ssh connection and any other spawned processes for ac...
over 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 0 Future consideration

Job slot of suspended jobs should be used in pending jobs

Hi Team, I would like pending jobs to be executed on the slots, where jobs are suspended using bstop command. Currently its not happening and those suspended job slots are remains unused. I request you to have a look and fix this issues in future ...
about 4 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 1 Future consideration

LSF does not allow jobs to moved from low to high/medium priority queues if there are limits set on medium/high priority queues

We have a setup as follows 1) High queue limit 3 2) Medium Queue limit 4 3) Low queue no limit and the default queue for usrs to submit jobs 4) Very low queue, will be used to use licenses effectively When a user submits 6 jobs for example in high...
about 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 1 Future consideration

Preemption support for MIG GPU jobs

We would like that preemption will be supported also for MIG jobs(A100 dgx mig devices). Currently the preemption is not working for this type of jobs. Example scenatiois: kill two or more jobs and reconfigure mig to have the new job run. We need ...
over 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 2 Future consideration

Reduce the Scheduler impact of a "bmod -sp"

Currently, a bmod is a very expensive activity in LSF, but running a bmod to simply change a jobs priority, should be a low impact changes. What we would request is to have the bmod that simply does an '-sp' to be handled in a way that has the lea...
almost 3 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 0 Future consideration