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Spectrum LSF

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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

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

Preserving job array conditions in multicluster

Job array conditions are widely used on our machines to manage when jobs are dispatched. Certain workflows require specific job stepping. Job array conditions aren't present in a multicluster environment. Our workaround involves submitting a job i...
over 8 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 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

In bhpart output, there's STARTED and RESERVED slots number, but no PEND slots number. We need the number of PEND slots for b

In bhpart output, there's STARTED and RESERVED slots number, but no PEND slots number. We need the number of PEND slots for business purpose.
almost 6 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration

In the "bresource -gl" output, there is slot number of "GUARANTEE CONFIGURED", "GUARANTEE USED" and "TOTAL USED", but no "PEN

In the "bresource -gl" output, there is slot number of "GUARANTEE CONFIGURED", "GUARANTEE USED" and "TOTAL USED", but no "PEND" slots number. We need the number of "PEND" slots for business purpose.
almost 6 years ago in Spectrum LSF 0 Not under consideration

Can LSF support windows docker?

We need LSF support windows docker like support linux docker, to address my company all windows production line have different windows development environment, than IT team need maintain too many windows physical server or VM. so, we wish LSF can ...
almost 3 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Simulation & Prediction 1 Not under consideration

Adding forking child to sbatchd can prevent significant delays and cascading problems associated with slow cgroup writes.

Platform LSF's root sbatchd daemon on the execution host gets stuck while writing to one of the cgroup subsystem. This causes the host to show unreachable status, and no new jobs will be dispatched to this host. Jobs which were already running on ...
over 8 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Not under consideration

change in the way graceful exits are handled/reported

When LSF sends kill signal to job, based on the time job takes to complete, it sometimes return "0" exit code and sometimes non-zero. This leads to diff message being return by LSF commands. In this RFE I would like to address ::1. What exit code ...
almost 6 years ago in Spectrum LSF 3 Not under consideration

cleanup of Old LOAD_INDEX records from lsb.events

The investigation indicates that LOAD_INDEX record is written to lsb.events when there is change (addition/deletion) in load indices. The records are not automatically cleaned and have no impact to performance unless there are a quite a lot of the...
almost 6 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration