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Spectrum LSF

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LSF jobs timeout - wall time limit

We are noticing an issue with some LSF jobs timeouts. For example user has submitted a job with 2 hr wall time limit but the compute host where the job is running is flagged as unhealthy by the in-house compute health check script and the host is ...
over 6 years ago in Spectrum LSF 0 Delivered

ADD vm_type field in lsb.stream

This is enhancement request to add VM_TYPE field in lsb.stream's JOB_FINISH2 event as well as in LSB.STATUS's JOB_STATUS2 event whereever possible.
over 3 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Cloud Bursting 2 Delivered

Add RC_Account field in lsb.stream

This is enhancement request to add RC_ACCOUNT field in JOB_FINISH2 event of lsb.stream. This event is already present in JOB_FINISH event of lsb.stream.
over 3 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Cloud Bursting 2 Delivered

Create instances with EBS-Optimized enabled

For now, the LSF resource connector for AWS can only create instances without EBS-Optimized enabled.But we want to create the instances with EBS-Optimized enabled in order to archive better performance in cloud storage.
almost 7 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Delivered

Create preemptible VMs in GCP thru the LSF resource connector

Create preemptible VMs in GCP thru the LSF resource connector.
over 3 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Delivered

Allow all bjobs output to respect the LSB_DISPLAY_YEAR option for all output types

The parameter "LSB_DISPLAY_YEAR"toggles on and off inclusion of the year in the string displayed by the commands bjobs -l, bacct -l, and bhst -i | -b | -t. However the bjobs -o uses totally different logic in order to get time format is fixed C_TI...
almost 7 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Delivered

http proxy server capability for LSF resource connector

Configuration of the resource connector to use a company owned proxy server to route http requests from local HPC LSF cluster resource connector to AWS.
about 7 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Delivered

Fix systemd unit file created by hostsetup to allow MPI jobs to use RDMA

In response to RFE #89685, requesting the creation and use of a systemd unit file, the fix 432732. The fix modified hostsetup to create the unit file, below, and register the lsfd service. [Unit]Description=IBM Spectrum LSFAfter=network.target nfs...
about 7 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Delivered

Attach additional disks to VMs created by various resource connector host providers

Be able to attach an additional disk (as /tmp) to VMs created by the resource connector of various host providers (Google, Azure, Cyclecloud, AWS). Something native like an option within the *_templates.json that already has various attributes, pr...
over 3 years ago in Spectrum LSF 0 Delivered

Show number of requested slots for pending jobs in bjobs output

The main unit for jobs in our setup is cores, i.e. one slot correspond to one core. For jobs that use affinity, e.g. hybrid MPI-OpenMP jobs, the number of slots for pending jobs only shows the slots given with the '-n' option of bsub, i.e. the num...
about 7 years ago in Spectrum LSF 6 Delivered