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Spectrum LSF

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Enhance Processor Affinity Management in Platform LSF To Address All Classical Execution Configurations for HPC Workloads

On behalf of our client, I have investigated the proper way to set the Platform LSF Affinity String ("-R affinity") in order to handle the standard execution configurations of their scientific applications. By "execution configurations", I mean th...
about 8 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Delivered

LSF: Improve load sync time between host & master scheduler

The current sync time between LSF scheduler running in a master host and another host is high. There is a out of sync time window wherein the load on a host is not in sync with a running job's memory requirements.Requesting to eliminate this out o...
about 4 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Delivered

LSF reservation to capture new nodes

This is likely a feature request, but I am hoping some mechanism might already exist to accomplish this task. When putting an advance reservation in place (typically for maintenance), all nodes are never up in a system the size of Summit. However,...
about 4 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Delivered

LSF: RESUME_COND parameter taking in account memory reservation

when jobs are suspended for mem or swap reasons and the RESUME_COND is true from a server point of view, jobs remains suspended due to jobs resource reservation.
about 8 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Delivered

RTM: host group graphs inconsistencies

looking host group graphs (slots utilization for ex), there no way to monitor slots/jobs usable (ie slots reachable by a bsub) in a hostgroup, only "installed" slots are monitored by a max line, not the number minus the closed_Adm, unlicensed, ......
about 8 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Delivered

Preemption history in LSF

LSF does not display a preemption history and 'reasons for preemption' with the history of a job that is preempting another job. It would be very useful, particularly in environments with a lot of resource contention, if the 'bhist -l' output of a...
over 8 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Delivered

Global license resource restriction using LSF/LS

We are looking for a solution such that a license resource within License Scheduler can be limited/controlled globally. The objective is to use Cluster-based Global License Fairshare and globally restrict the total number of licenses per feature i...
over 8 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Delivered

LSF: a way to update job group owner

Currently, we are unable to change he owner of a job group. Is it possible to add a new function to the bgmod command to update the JG owner ? bgmod -u job_group_name
over 8 years ago in Spectrum LSF 4 Delivered

job group management improvement

Hello,checking log file of RTM server, we found a recurrent warning triggered by too many job group for one of our LSF cluster. this highlight that we cannot have more than ~7000 job group for a cluster, the impacted cluster having ~30k explicit j...
about 4 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 1 Delivered

Provide flexible way to show job order as started time.

Provide flexible way to show job order as started time.
over 8 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Delivered