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Spectrum LSF

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preemption

We're going to use the preemption through the following settings. Begin QueueQUEUE_NAME = test99PRIORITY = 99HOSTS = allPREEMPTION = PREEMPTIVE[test1]End Queue Begin QueueQUEUE_NAME = test1PRIORITY = 1HOSTS = allPREEMPTION = PREEMPTABLE[test99]TER...
almost 6 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration

Add additional Metrics to the grid_clusters_perfmon_status table

From badmin show status add the following missing columns: Latest estimation start: - Next estimation start: - Estimation status: Not started Active estimator PIDs: - Elapsed time: 0:00:00 Number of jobs to estimate: 0 Number of estimated jobs:...
almost 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Operations/RTM 1 Not under consideration

Need lsmake which is supprts Gmake v4.2.1 or later

Current lsmake4 version supports GNU Make 4.0Customer environment uses Gmake v4.2.1 . We need lsmake4 to support Gmake v4.2.1 to enable make through LSF.
almost 4 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Other 0 Planned for future release

Add quick help to RTM graphs when hovering the mouse on top of the graph

Show short help for each RTM graph while user hovers the mouse on top of the graph. Short help should have information of purpose of the graph and units of X and Y axels.
almost 4 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Operations/RTM 1 Not under consideration

LSF doesn't allow multiple LOAN policies on the same hosts

LSF has limitation in SLA LOAN_POLICIES configuration by having only one loan duration time available. It would be great, if SLA LOAN_POLICIES can support option to LOAN for different time to different queues. For example:LOAN_POLICIES = QUEUES[ge...
almost 4 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 1 Not under consideration

bkill instrumentation/logging to find source

Currently the bkill command only tracks (lsb.events) who ran it, and what signal was sent. If we have a heavily active user with a broken script, it is very challenging to find the source of the bkill command. It would be valuable to log the sourc...
about 6 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration

RTM to/from LSF communication of Psusp-requeue job notifcation

We have reproduced the issue and it's a timing issue with RTM because LSF does not provide exitinfo when job's pre-exec fails and requeued. Since RTM relies on exitinfo to put it in the correct table, the changes will have to come from LSF. This w...
about 4 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Operations/RTM 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...
about 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 1 Future consideration

RTM License monitor

Case TS001211168 - Created - RTM License Dashboard We have been bring up license monitoring on RTM and ts working great. We would like to get more of a readers digest view for the users that list how many licenses we have and how many are checked ...
about 6 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Not under consideration

LSF should store accounting data in database

The lsb.acct log file format is anachronistic and hard for customers to deal with. To get the LSF accounting data into a relational database customers have to write their own code to parse lsb.acct files (ether via custom code such as perl/python,...
about 6 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration