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Spectrum LSF

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LSF API should offer asynchronous event handler for job status notifications

It would be nice if LSF had functionality for job event notification similar to LDAP's LDAP_SERVER_NOTIFICATION_OID control (and Microsoft's Active Directory has this, as an LDAP implementation), where you can use an extended LDAP asynchronous sea...
over 6 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Delivered

LSF: API call need to show job submit & termination in a custom plugin

A custom LSF scheduler plugin has access to LSF APIs along with registered call back functions to influence & monitor job scheduling.Presently, there is no precise way to determine the job submission & finish of a job. Registered NewJob &a...
over 4 years ago in Spectrum LSF 0 Delivered

Provide Option to Automatically Pull and Prune Containers from Exec Hosts

Currently LSF allows defining of an application profile to pull images selectively based upon configuration. However there is now way to provide pre-staging of images, and pruning of under utilized images. The customer would like support similar t...
over 6 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Delivered

LSF SE needs a way to set waiting time before forwarding jobs to remote cluster in Multi-Cluster environment

LSF AE + XL mode provides MAX_RSCHED_TIME=penditng_time_to_be_recalled wait_time_to_reschedule, but LSF SE supports only pending_time_to_be_recalled. As LSF SE has no control for the wait_time_to_reschedule, job could be unnecessarily pended for a...
over 6 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Delivered

Security concerns with ID and secret ID

When setting up resource connector for AWS it requires that we provide aws_access_key_id and aws_secret_access_key in aws_enable.sh script. This is stored in plain text format. If the aws cluster is used by our external customer this will be a sec...
over 4 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Delivered

Ability to set RC_ACCOUNT at job level

As of now, RC_ACCOUNT is statically set in lsb.queues OR lsb.applications, we need to have RC_ACCOUNT set at job level to dynamically set to a string using esub mechanism.
over 4 years ago in Spectrum LSF 0 Delivered

Host addition and configuration in LSF Suite using hostsetup

In LSF Suite, currently host addition is supported using the ansible playbooks/roles.When using NFS installation, we have observed that it can be done using hostsetup. We need this possibility to be added/validated and supported.
over 4 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Delivered

Enable automatic killing of PSUSP jobs after configurable time period

Allow queue level automatic termination of jobs in PSUSP status after a configurable amount of time.
over 6 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Delivered

GPU report to show GPU usage and GPU memory usaage

We use the resource usage reporting of LSF and would like to have a GPU report that is similar to the CPU accounting. Right now, GPU accounting is quite simple. For example, we would like to have something like GPU memory usage, charge back, faile...
over 4 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 0 Delivered

Performance is slow in submission host when use data manager to handle requested files

bsub delay on the submission host
over 6 years ago in Spectrum LSF 6 Delivered