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Spectrum LSF

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Allow preemption of shared gpu jobs (j_exclusive=no) by higher priority job queues.

We need the LSF support for preemption of shared gpu jobs. Currently GPU preemption is supported only for jobs in mode j_exclusive=yes This is a very big problem as we have a significant waste of gpu memory resource. because if a lower priority jo...
about 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 1 Not under consideration

Enable option for hardcoding GPU memory request like its available for CPU memory request

At this moment IBM offers features of hardcoding CPU memory. We have implemented this feature in our cluster with esub scripting. Similarly we want to have same feature available for GPU memmory (gmem) to be hardcoded. I have raised ticket to our ...
about 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 2 Not under consideration

Add regular expression filtering for Job Name, Project, and Job Group for searching for jobs

Presently, filtering by wildcard in LSF is only supported in two location, and that filtering is quite limited. It would be nice to extend that filtering to regular expressions and extend it to key fields like project name.
about 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 1 Not under consideration

RTM should be able to properly parse effective and/or combined resource requirements and handle both compound and /task, /host, and /job reservations to determine pending/reserved memory

RTM calculates pending and running memory reservations by parsing the resource requirements string. However, it currently is not properly calculating that memory reservation for either compound resource requirements or with the new per /task, /hos...
about 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Operations/RTM 1 Not under consideration

Allow user access tokens to have a lifetime similar to 'remember me' support industry best practice

Currently, we have robots that submit jobs using the Web Interface. The tokens expiration is currently static, and there is no API endpoint to determine the validity of the token which means that job submission and controls can fail randomly witho...
about 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / End User UI/Applicaton Center 0 Future consideration

Include "All" file types as default file types while file selection in Spectrum application Centre (10.2.0.12) - Reference Case TS011445497

Include "All" file types as default file types while file selection in Spectrum application Centre (10.2.0.12) - Reference Case TS011445497
about 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / End User UI/Applicaton Center 1 Not under consideration

Add Additional "stats" Table Metrics

For operations and KPI management, having some additional metrics in the various stats tables is important. For our use here, it would be helpful to have the following metrics: Pend Time Metrics: (eligible based upon job class not LSF setting)* av...
about 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Operations/RTM 1 Not under consideration

Improving job status problem due to defunct process

Sometimes, defunct can occur in job processes for a variety of reasons. For example, 29460 below is one of the processes of some job. ps -ef | grep bg92 bg92.pa+ 29460 1 1 2022 ? 08:03:02 [Novas] <defunct> And if a defunct process occurs, L...
about 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 2 Not under consideration

When Exporting Jobs Records Do Not Sort Them

Sorting the job records adds quite a bit of overhead to the export process.
about 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Operations/RTM 1 Not under consideration

IBM PAC enhancements

In Input file selection field of IBM PAC job submission template, the file browser window defaults to a very small size. Could the file browser window automatically maximize? Small window doesn't display long file names completely
over 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / End User UI/Applicaton Center 2 Future consideration