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Terminating Client mode Spark cluster from IBM Spectrum Conductor

IBM Spectrum Conductor supports Spark clusters in both, "cluster" and "client", modes. The "cluster" mode spark-cluster contains a dedicated spark-driver that IBM Spectrum Conductor manages. Hence, when such spark-cluster creates any issue with th...
6 months ago in Spectrum Conductor / Version 2.5.1 0 Submitted

Certifying Spectrum Conductor Platform for miniforge.

Miniforge is a relatively new conda installer that is managed by conda-forge community (https://github.com/conda-forge/miniforge). Our organization has decided to move away from Anacodna and Miniconda and use exclusively miniforge to manage our co...
8 months ago in Spectrum Conductor / Version 2.5.1 0 Submitted

Have a way to enable/disable the perfdata feature. -XX:+UsePerfData

We need a way to enable/disable the perfdata feature. -XX:+UsePerfData since under high loads, race condition will occur causing host to be blocked with exit code 127. This occurs since more than one process accessing /tmp/hsperdata_<user>/&...
4 months ago in Spectrum Conductor / Version 2.5.1 3 Submitted

"lim -t" phrases for aarch

Referring to TS018491466. We obtain the following architecture details by doing the $LSF_SERVERDIR/lim -t on the AARCH machines. AArch64Processorrev2aarch64 AArch64Processorrev1aarch64 AArch64Processorrev0aarch64 And this looks to not be in phrase...
9 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 0 Future consideration

Support Rate Limiting in the LSF Proxy

We have a case where users, if left to their own accords will not eclipse the current supported connections, but in the end will diminish the batch performance if left on their own. So, provide a feature where I can have a configuration file that ...
almost 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 2 Future consideration

Python 3.11.x is not supported in IBMSC 2.5.1 spark 3.3.1

Currently Spark 3.3.1 does not support python 3.11.x, it requires spark 3.4 or greater. Please release IBMSC 2.5.1 support for spark 4.0 or higher at the earliest.
12 months ago in Spectrum Conductor / Version 2.5.1 1 Submitted

Get available VM count value from cyclecloud provider for resource connector templates using badmin rc view -c templates command

It would be useful if quota from the Azure backend is completely used, LSF admins can easily check if VMs are available in the quota from Azure.
about 3 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 0 Future consideration

Adding one more field [JobID] to "badmin diagnose -c query" output

If users execute query commands in LSF batch job, it can overload the LSF master server and degrade its performance. To address this, we need a new field for job IDs to expedite the identification of problematic jobs. And the requirement is to add...
6 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 1 Not under consideration

bhist json format output, similar to bjobs -json

Programatically parsing bhist output takes effort and susceptible to occasional changes across versions. json format output similar to bjobs -json would ease the handling of bhist output through scripts.
about 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 1 Future consideration

Require Support for Spark 3.5.x and python 3.11

Python version 3.11 is required and no current Spark versions support it
over 1 year ago in Spectrum Conductor / Version 2.5.1 1 Submitted