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Spectrum LSF

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Implement Kerberos Constrained Delegation for LSF

currently LSF uses kerberos API "krb5_cc_retrieve_cred" to retrieve user TGT, details can be found:http://web.mit.edu/kerberos/krb5-latest/doc/appdev/refs/api/krb5_cc_retrieve_cred.html this API doesn't work for TGT created by constrained delegati...
over 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 1 Not under consideration

Support bimages for podman

Hello, we want to enable users running podman to perform management of images downloaded by the podman. The management includes clean-up of images based on some policy like LRU or any other that user decides. I think bimages is supported for docke...
almost 3 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 2 Not under consideration

mbatch hang/bsub hang issue caused by slowly resolution

We have experienced the following issues. For more information, please refer to case number TS005350597.If any DNS issue happens, egroup resolution is very slow and mbatchd waits for egroup. egroup resolution slow -> mbatchd wait for egroup -&g...
about 3 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Not under consideration

RTM Implementation Total GPU Wall time statistic.

RTM GPU Wall time statistic is limited to "only Finished Exclusive job has GPU wall time reported and it based on DCGM".We would like to see statistic for GPU wall time usage regardless job exist status and GPU mode. Also because GPUs are occupied...
about 3 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Operations/RTM 2 Not under consideration

LSF eauth setuid bit

I have a request for setuid permission in LSF eauth file. Our customers use only root accounts for LSF services. Under these conditions,the customer request an official method to delete the setuid permission of the LSF eauth file. Because if root ...
about 3 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration

Make lsadmin/badmin accept "yes" and "no" as answers

Questions asked by `lsadmin` and `badmin` (and maybe other administrative LSF commands) only accept "y" and "n" as answers. "yes" and "no" are not accepted but should be
about 3 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 0 Not under consideration

GPU Usage for charge back

Chargeback report in LSF explorer reports usage based on slots that are tied to CPU cores. Deep learning experiments use CPUs and GPUs, we need chargeback to include GPU usage so that the target users/departments can be charged appropriately.
over 3 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Reporting/Explorer 1 Not under consideration

energy usage reporting (EAS) not working on intel x86_64 servers

During the testing of EAS on my Dell/HPE hardwares running Linux/CentOS - I figured out that various features in EAS is not really working on these hardwares and they may be only designed for IBM Hardware like Power Systems. Worked with Support on...
over 3 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration

host power management 'EAS' feature for x86_64 h/w

During the testing of EAS on my Dell/HPE hardwares running Linux/CentOS - I figured out that various features in EAS is not really working on these hardwares and they may be only designed for IBM Hardware like Power Systems. Worked with Support on...
over 3 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration

RC_Account visibility in RTM Job Info fields

IBM LSF Resource Connector has gone through many enhancements, like job level RC_Account. However, this field is not visible in RTM. This new filed should be added in RTM job information.
over 3 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Cloud Bursting / Operations/RTM 5 Not under consideration