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Spectrum LSF

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Add a JobID's column to the table grid_hosts_gpu and show in Job Details page

It would be very beneficial to reporting to see which jobid's are allocated to which jobs when it comes to the GPU assigned. This way, the user can look at the ELIM graphs and know that their job is actually using the GPU in question. Right now, y...
almost 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Operations/RTM 1 Not under consideration

prevent LSF docker jobs from failing with unuseful error message

When submitting docker jobs, using LSF (with the -app bsub option), the entire user's env is sent directly to the docker-current command (with the --env-file docker option), even though the docker-current command does not accept certain env variab...
over 5 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration

To be able to kill a specific process from a job

Hello, Sometimes, a job is completely stucked due to a specific process. Customer doesn't want to kill the whole job because he is waiting for the result of job. Would it possible to add the ability to kill a specific process from a job without ki...
almost 6 years ago in Spectrum LSF 4 Not under consideration

LSF should always reject submitting jobs which request slots over slot limit.

A job with over limit slot request still can be submitted when the slot limit is configured with USERS. For example: With SUERS configured, job can be submitted and stays pending: Begin Limit NAME = TestQueueSiJobLimit QUEUES = priority SLOTS = 3 ...
almost 6 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration

Improve Job Priority Output to Exceed 1e6 as APS can easily increase Per Job Priority above that value

There is currently a system limitation that Job Priories above 1e6 do not display correctly when using bjobs -o "blah" formatted output. This is currently causing us a monitoring issue when attempting to order jobs with a very high dynamic priorit...
almost 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 1 Not under consideration

Dynamic priority based on jobarray length

We exclusively work with jobarrays at our company. We have a queue reserved for jobs that take no more than 3 minutes. A general rule of thumb is that small jobarrays at our company can be considered as interactive jobs where the user waits for th...
almost 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 0 Not under consideration

bjgroup: option to select user (OWNER)

add -u option to bjgroup command to filter output by OWNER. show only user jobgroup for a given user (like bjobs), used '-u all' to show all.
almost 6 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration

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

Support Multi-threaded LIM with a Shared Memory Database for Scalability

It would be nice if LSF's LIM used a shared memory database and could accept multiple threads instead of having to constantly fork itself to return client data. The new setting to increase/decrease the LIM connection backlog was informative, but i...
about 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 1 Not under consideration

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.
about 4 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Operations/RTM 1 Not under consideration