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Spectrum LSF

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Free up a job slot if lsfadmin suspends a job

We wold like to have the ability to free up a job slot when a lsfadmin suspends a job due to some valid reasons. In our case, we are trying to run a script to check if the user has reached the quota on their current run directory, and if they are ...
over 4 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 2 Future consideration

Ability to reserve GPUs in LSF advanced reservations

It's currently not possible to reserve GPUs in an advanced reservation with LSF, unlike CPUs (slots) and memory. For example, we have some hosts with 120 CPU slots and 8 GPUs. I want to create a reservation that reserves half of a node. I can do t...
11 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 0 Future consideration

Add a 'bsub -Gl limit_name' option to separate Fairshare Assignment from the Limit also add a default limit pattern to use if ONE_UG_TREE does not find a matching limit

We have many cases, where we have limits for users, but we also want to want to apply a fairshare group for the job to arrive at a base allocation. Unfortunately, with ONE_UG enabled, if the Fairshare Group does not have a corresponding Limit, not...
12 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 0 Future consideration

Increase MAX_JOBID in PE environment - 4194303 too low

When using PE in LSF the maximum job ID is 4194303.We have already cycled through the range in 12 months and we'll likely do it twice this year.Having jobs with duplicate IDs causes a lot of problems with things like job accounting.
almost 8 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration

use "bconf" command to delete host and create or delete resource

It would be helpful for administrators. Simplify the management of HPC clusters.
almost 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 0 Future consideration

Add IBM LSF RTM alert interval by weekly basis, currently it only has daily alert notice in RTM pop-up column.

IBM Spectrum LSF RTM only have hours, daily basis of alert pop-up column could choose. For management of current alert aggregation, We need IBM to add this feature enhancement into RTM fix patch. The features enhancement came from needs of...
about 3 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Operations/RTM 1 Not under consideration

be able to add (and remove) new type of metadata

to manage other metadata that the ones already defined: LSF user extra limit & TTL, license quota, etc ... currently, we must update several scripts & conf files to add (or remove) other metadata type than the built-in ones.
about 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Operations/RTM 0 Planned for future release

provide a mechanism to avoid manually inserting hash code into thold.php and settings.php for new thold alerts to view details.

When we add our own thold alerts, we must add manually the hash code recorded into a mysql table into thold.php and settings.php scripts to be able to display details. Can you please redesign the code to avoid these steps ?
about 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Operations/RTM 1 Planned for future release

support 5 or more arguments in thold.php

To create versatile alerts, we sometimes needs more than 2 or 3 max arguments to set the alert. For ex, for a LSF server load alert, we should need clusterid, server hostgroup, load index, comparison operator, etc ....
about 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Operations/RTM 1 Planned for future release

Expanding the host list for bjobs-m

If we puts a list variable containing about 1300 equipment into the bjobs(bjobs -u all -m "$list"), a segmentation fault (core dump) occurs. Dev checked code. The host list in bjobs -m supports 512 hostnames at most. The host to put in bjobs ...
about 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 1 Not under consideration