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Spectrum LSF

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LSF: bhosts (-w,-l) status when host is closed_Adm and unavail or unreach

bhosts -l HOST ...STATUS CPUF JL/U MAX NJOBS RUN SSUSP USUSP RSV DISPATCH_WINDOWunavail 1.00 - 3 0 0 0 0 0 - LOAD THRESHOLD USED FOR SCHEDULING: .... ADMIN ACTION COMMENT: "HDD or RAID ctlr issue"badmin hhist Mon Dec 29 08:17:06: Host closed by ad...
almost 10 years ago in Spectrum LSF 3 Not under consideration

lsdmin trigger a parallel restart when host is removed from lsf.c<cluster>file

lsadmin reconfig after a host is removed from lsf. triggers a mbatchd reconfig which is causing a disruption in job submission as this is a not a parallel restart . This request is to change this behavior to a parallel restart rather than normal r...
over 6 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration

LSF select section of bsub can support regular express.

LSF select section of bsub can support regular express. For example, bsub -R "select[ostype='RHEL*']" -Is csh
over 6 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration

Cgroups CPU subsystem support

We want to ensure that jobs get the CPU time according to the amount of slots requested, especially on nodes shared by multiple jobs. This has always been an important goal in HPC environments. To achieve this we can use affinity, however CPU affi...
almost 10 years ago in Spectrum LSF 4 Not under consideration

Request Platform Analytics bldloader improvements

Request improvements to the Platform Analytics bldloader data loader so that it captures more of the information that is available on the command line. The License Scheduler documentation includes details on how to set up LS to write to a bld.stre...
over 6 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration

New chart to plot actual usage and total available capacity aggregated by project or queue or user against time.

Actual versus Capacity Client has requested a new chart. This chart would plot actual usage and total available capacity aggregated by project or queue or user against time. The following measures would be available:  • total job run tim...
over 6 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration

bhist should be able to parse job ids even if respective JOB_NEW record is rotated

Since the current bhist design requires JOB_NEW record to display a job's information, Opening a Request for Enhancement (RFE) on meaningful message in "bhist -f event_file" output when event_file only contains job records other than JOB_NEW, such...
over 6 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration

Japanese file path and file name should be supported

This customer is using Linux mainly now. Windows applications and servers are increasing at customer's site. They intend to build mixed(Linux/Windows) cluster. Current Windows users are using Japanese files as execution or input/output file so on....
almost 7 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration

List the hosts with a particular exclusive resource with the lshosts command

List the hosts with a particular exclusive resource with the lshosts command.
almost 7 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Not under consideration

Can blstat add one more column showing pending jobs

If LSF_LIC_SCHD_RSV_FOR_PEND_JOB=Y in lsf.conf, license demand is from all pending jobs no matter pending reason.If do not set LSF_LIC_SCHD_RSV_FOR_PEND_JOB in lsf.conf, license demand is from pending jobs with pending reason related license.But b...
almost 7 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration