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Spectrum LSF

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Define resource limit for each Application Profile

(1) We define many queues to limit resource usage. But there are too many queues in our cluster. That's hard to manage and not easy to use. (2) We are considering "esub method" to limit "per-applicaiton" slots usage for this customer, but that way...
almost 8 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Delivered

FLexlm timeouts

The timeout define for license services is used both for collect timeout and lmstat (-t option) timeout. can you please create a new field in the license service editor (${RTM_TOP}/cacti/plugins/license/lic_servers.php?action=edit&service_id=1...
over 5 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Delivered

Checkpointing

We need a solution for checkpointing jobs on LSF 10. We have tried Criu, it doesn't work for users (only for root).
over 5 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Delivered

Allow bjobs -o to display the asked host list specified by bsub -m

We need to display the asked host list specified by bsub -m in the bjobs -o output. We need to parse the asked host list for data statistics to improve the utilization of the computing resources.
over 5 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Delivered

Job pend time statistic error

Description: By definition, job pend time should be pre-exec time minus submit time, but the job pend time taken by Explorer is run time minus submit time, which contains pre-execution time.According to the explorer support professional, the job p...
over 5 years ago in Spectrum LSF 0 Delivered

LSF Resource connector should select template for minimum number of servers

LSF Resource connector selects the template based on the resources and priority defined in the configuration file. This is good approach for a single job. However, when there are multiple jobs (which is the case mostly), this approach is not suita...
over 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Cloud Bursting 2 Delivered

Relax GPU affinity while maintaining Core affinity

Prior to the introduction of the LSB_GPU_NEW_SYNTAX=extend it was possible to have jobs using core affinity and be assigned to cores on a cpu that is not directly connected to the gpu that was assigned to the job. After the introduction it will al...
over 5 years ago in Spectrum LSF 3 Delivered

Format options for bacct, similar to those for bjobs(Address in 114254)

Similar to how bjobs has -UF and -o , it would be really useful to have the same reporting capabilities for bacct
over 8 years ago in Spectrum LSF 3 Delivered

Python-LSF interface for Windows

The currently available Python-LSF interface (based on SWIG) supports Linux, but not Windows.
over 5 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Delivered

LSF Smart Memory Limit - conditional opt-out

We have implemented the 'Smart Memory Limit' functionality, which 99% of our users like. But there are a few users who relied on the old situation (Hard Memory limit, where jobs were killed when they hit the MEMLIMIT). Can we have a way for users ...
over 5 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Delivered