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Spectrum LSF

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if there is not job tmp directory, RES will re-create it

To have better control over RES created files like .1513002449.181663317.acct , which are responsible for proper accounting of HPC jobs. Currently these intermediate files are created under directories defined through LSB_JOB_TMPDIR or LSF_TMP_DIR...
about 6 years ago in Spectrum LSF 0 Delivered

Take job size into account in historical run_time

LSF's fairshare includes a RUN_TIME parameter that can track the total time accumulated by a user / group's completed jobs. By weighting this parameter, a user's historic jobs can be accounted for in determining their job priority. This factor doe...
about 4 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Delivered

LSF Support for M1/M1 Pro/M2 Pro

We would like IBM to support LSF on M1/M1 Pro/M2 Pro for the ARMV8/aarch64 platform.
about 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Other 4 Delivered

Prevent LSF from dispatching jobs to problematic hosts consistently

Some jobs are dispatched to a host and failed because the communication between MBATCHD and SBATCHD is failed. The host keeps in OK status and the jobs keep dispatching to the host, which makes the job can not run for a long time. The communicatio...
over 8 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Delivered

RTM remote database supporting mysql request

RTM 10.2 seems only support mariadb for remote. But right now nvidia only has mysql db 5.x and even for future we will continue using mysql db for RTM. So we will have problem to upgrade RTM from 10.1 to 10.2 due to RTM remote database support. We...
over 4 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Delivered

Configure a list of queue to hide for end user

Have the possibility to specify a list queue in pmc.conf to exclude display job on workload. We notice that when we set SHOW_TRANFER_JOB=false in pmc.conf all jobs on the queue transfer are hidden.Because we have some Technical job (maintenance or...
over 4 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Delivered

Request normal users able to kill only their own jobs in LSF RTM

RTM can be configured to allow users to force kill or suspend/resume the jobs through the following steps:Login as admin, go to Console -> user management -> ; enable the option "RTM-> Cluster Control Management".Then, the user can go to ...
over 4 years ago in Spectrum LSF 3 Delivered

Jobs that get into PSUSP state because they reached MAX_JOB_REQUEUE cannot be killed by an appropriate JOB_CONTROL mechanism

Answer from PMR: For the PSUSP jobs JOB_CONTROL can not work on PSUSP job. We have checked the source code in these days and found that 1. LSF doesn't set any environment variable when a job reaches its requeue limit and be put into PSUSP status 2...
over 6 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Delivered

Elasticsearch 7.4 support for Explorer

There is a new feature in Elasticsearch 7.3 onwards called dataframes which is a good transformer and will be useful in Explorer because we have limitation of doing multi-aggregation in elasticserch.
over 4 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Delivered

many jobs pend due to "Just started a job recently".

1. the candidate hosts are sorted by CPU load; 2. do not dispatch jobs in a "pack" fashion, instead, "balance" fashion.
almost 9 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Delivered