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Map memory reservation to cgroup memory.low

Mapping the memory reservation of a job to the cgroup memory.low could protect jobs from running short on memory, while in parallel allowing more memory to be used if it's available. The soft limit instead of a hard limit should prevent users to b...
1 day ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 0 Submitted

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...
1 day ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 0 Submitted

Keep job in memory for a specified time period

Allow job to be kept in memory for an extended amount of time beyond global setting
8 days ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 0 Future consideration

Improve bsub rejection messages for troubleshooting

Improve the error messages returned from bsub failiure. For example, provide the rusage string and potentially specified what is wrong with rusage. Here is current failure message: Error in rusage section. Job not submitted.
22 days ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 0 Future consideration

Add job group filter to bhist

The ability to find job groups via bhist command after the jobs have been removed from memory.
22 days ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 0 Future consideration

LSF job query filter on pending jobs without providing pending reasons

For large LSF clusters, the bjobs command takes significant time to gather the pending reasons (-p, -pei, -pe, -pi) making the query much longer than requesting all jobs. Suggest a new bjobs option to filter on pending jobs without supplying the p...
about 1 month ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 0 Future consideration

truncated hostnames in bjobs output

For a debug where hosts are available but jobs are not landing on them - I need to run bjobs -UF (or -l) -p2 This command generates below like data structure Slots are reserved for guarantees: xxx3-sim-d18-081, xxx-sim-d18-077, xxx- sim-d30-065, x...
4 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 0 Planned for future release

Enhance lsmake4 to support Grouped Target's in the latest version of make 4.4.1

Currently our tools are using Grouped Target's which don't properly work causing quite a bit of rework after the initial compile.
8 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 0 Planned for future release

INCLUDE directive for lsf.cluster file

Its great to have INCLUDE functionality added in LSF and we're using heavily in our multiple LSF clusters. Its makes it easy to manage many clusters for common config edits and keep the farms compliant. I am logging this RFE to extend this feature...
6 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 0 Planned for future release

New age patchinstall tool

With IBM moved away from Quarterly fixpacks to Yearly release – we often see bunch of patches for install as backlog. Current patchinstall tool does this job efficiently for a single patch and if I’ve to install 5 patches on top of a fixpack (inde...
6 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 0 Future consideration

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