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    LSF must not ignore empty groups if they are managed by egroup

    When running `badmin reconfig`, LSB ignores lines with empty groups: Aug 25 16:22:20 2025 11385 4 10.1 do_Groups: File /opt/lsf/conf/lsbatch/XXXX/configdir/lsb.users at line 50: No valid member in group <XXXX>; ignoring line this is ok for g...
    4 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Other 1 Needs more information

    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.
    10 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 0 Planned for future release

    Data Manager enhancement: Mark job as DONE after file reaches final destination

    We want the main job to be marked as DONE only after the data file has been successfully transferred to the user-specified destination. Currently, with the integration of LSF and Data Manager, the main job is marked as DONE as soon as the 'bstage ...
    7 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Data Management 1 Not under consideration

    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. ...
    7 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 2 Future consideration

    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

    Make vm_type details in lsb. Acct file

    vm_type is field is available only on event file . Can this be made available for Acct file as well? We extract lot of job information from Acct file so it will be good if we get vm_type details in the same file
    over 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Other 0 Future consideration

    "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

    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

    Add INCLUDE file capabilities into LSF License Scheduler configuration

    The ability to specify the License Scheduler configuration in multiple include files where each include file contains the separate configuration of each independent software vendor. For example, #INCLUDE /path/cadence.lsf.license_scheduler #INCLUD...
    9 months ago in Spectrum LSF / License Management 0 Planned for future release

    Support MIG declaration in resource connector templates for gpu VMs

    We use to provision new GPU hosts (having MIG enabled using post install) in cloud using resource connector but when the job contains "mig" in the gpu resource requirement, it does not provision the host. When checked upon to declare MIG in the re...
    10 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Cloud Bursting 0 Planned for future release

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