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Spectrum LSF

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Why do we have to run "lspasswd" to register windows user's password in LSF ?

Customers hope they don't need to use lspasswd in Windows. But LSF needs user's password to impersonate user before running user's job on a Windows execution host. This is due to the designed feature of user authentication in Windows. Windows need...
over 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 1 Not under consideration

RTM column names update

In the 'grid -> job details' view ($RTM_TOP/cacti/plugins/grid/grid_bjobs.php), the names of the column 'Num CPUs' and 'Max Procs' are confusing. Is it possible to rename its respectively 'Alloc Slots' and 'Max slots' ?
about 5 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration

brequeue on zombie jobs please

a machine crashed on an on-premise cluster leaving many jobs in a UNKWN state. as described here [https://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg3T1027518] i tried bkill -r twice then brequeue -e, but got the error message "Job has already fini...
about 5 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 1 Not under consideration

IBM Spectrum LSF Standard Edition does not support multi NIC VM provisioning

IBM Spectrum LSF standard Edition does not support multi NIC VM provisioning using resource connector.
almost 8 years ago in Spectrum LSF 3 Not under consideration

bhosts -o "non shared dynamic numeric elim resource"

I'd like to see "non shared dynamic numeric elim resource" info from bhosts -o. bhosts -o can only view LSF embedded resources.(as previously defined)"bhosts -o "field_name[:[-][output_width]]" lsload -o could tell us non-shared resource status. B...
over 5 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 0 Not under consideration

Support multiple RDP sessions on windows to support remote 3D application

remote virtualization is becoming more and more important when client is truing to building a HPC cluster. They are intending to put the pre and post simulation work on remote clusters with GPU cards without downloading the files. And also make th...
over 5 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration

RTM: monitor advance reservation

like for hostgroups, monitor system metrics like cpu, mem, swap, etc, number of jobs, of users, etc of of advance reservation created using 'brsvadd', visible using 'brsvs -l' comand
about 8 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Not under consideration

LSF Explorer installation permission issue

The default permissions with which Explorer server and embedded Elasticsearch is installed is hard coded to lsfadmin user and root group even after keep another user install.config. We want that the install area ownership to a user other than lsfa...
over 5 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration

Improve Various Components of the Current Scheduler Adlgorithm

Currently, though the Scheduler supports threads, the processing is not a thread per bucket, but rather a threads that are used on a per bucket basis and buckets are still handled serially, which has led us to Host Match times around 400 seconds. ...
almost 3 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 4 Not under consideration

Copying chart in LSF Explorer

I heard that so far LE does not have this function that copy chart directly from web service. So we should always start with the New form when we create the chart.It will be very uncomfortable.
over 5 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Not under consideration