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Spectrum LSF

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Change the name of "libevent.so".

We have "libevent.so" for our application. LSF "libevent.so" conflict with it and we have to set library path for ours in job scripts. "libevent.so" is too common name, so please change it in LSF, like "liblsfevent.so".
over 7 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Not under consideration

Huge *.out files is getting created in /tmp issue

Sometimes LSF job STDOUT files, such as $JOB_SPOOL_DIR/..out grow to enormous sizes and fill up the filesystem. Neither Linux nor LSF provides a mechanism to limit the size of those specific files without also limiting all other files on the files...
almost 5 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration

LSF should support mapping resources to host group(s)

We need to map 200 dynamic gpu resources to all 120 gpu nodes due to gpu auto config is not supported in RHEL6. In the current latest LSF 10.1.0.9, we have to add 120 host names to each of 200 resources. This makes lsf.cluster file very messy. And...
almost 5 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 0 Not under consideration

LSF does not allow jobs to moved from low to high/medium priority queues if there are limits set on medium/high priority queues

We have a setup as follows 1) High queue limit 3 2) Medium Queue limit 4 3) Low queue no limit and the default queue for usrs to submit jobs 4) Very low queue, will be used to use licenses effectively When a user submits 6 jobs for example in high...
over 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 1 Future consideration

Roll back job submission when bsub cannot receive the jobid from mbatchd

Due to a network hiccup caused by an overloaded server, job submission using bsub returned this message which of course does not include the new jobid: Failed in an LSF library call: Communication time out. Job not submitted However the job was re...
almost 10 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Not under consideration

Add Resource Description to Table grid_hosts_resources

We currently have a need to view Shared Resources via their Description. It would be nice if: 1) This data was in the grid_hosts_resources table 2) There was a searchable description column under the Shared Resources Report view in RTM
over 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Operations/RTM 1 Not under consideration

Have launchTemplateId/Instance template for LSF Google Resource Connector work the same as if launching from Google cli/portal

Google LSF Resource Connector has the option to launch VMs based off Instance Template feature of GCP thru the launchTemplateId field in googleprov_templates.json. There is additional flexibility in being able to override settings defined in the I...
over 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Cloud Bursting 0 Future consideration

Enable more dynamic tags in LSF resource connector

Currently in Resource connector only one dynamic tag called "RC_ACCOUNT" is enabled but we would like to have more such dynamic tags which can be used along with bsub command.Example;Current tag takes only " -P project_name" as a dynamic tag . But...
over 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Cloud Bursting 1 Not under consideration

json format of lsb.acct log file

It will help with using Splunk for searching and analysis usage of HPC.
over 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Reporting/Explorer 1 Not under consideration

Max number of nodes for LSF service class

It would be useful to set a minimum value of guaranteed nodes as well as a maximum value in the distribution of an LSF service class
about 5 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration