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Spectrum LSF

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Support RUN_TIME_DECAY on GPU Runtime

Currently RUN_TIME_DECAY only modifies Fairshare for CPU jobs and not GPU jobs.
over 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 0 Future consideration

ssched jobs missing task information to calculate job run time

We graph job run time from the data in Elasticsearch provided from LSF Explorer. ssched jobs do not contain enough information to calculate job run time. We believe task jobs should contain the same data as regular LSF jobs
almost 4 years ago in Spectrum LSF 3 Not under consideration

LSF Explorer support for multiple clusters with the same name

Customer has multiple clusters with the same cluster name. Changing LSF cluster names to be unique is not an option. Their environment is large. Other products in the LSF family support this. LSF_LIC_SCHED_CLUSTER_ALIAS addresses the concern for L...
over 5 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Reporting/Explorer 0 Not under consideration

Availability of Max used License Scheduler managed license token in LSF job records

License Scheduler keeps updating LSF job records for the actual number of license tokens used by the job. At the end, only the last used value of the license token is kept in the job records. LSF should record the maximum number of token used by L...
about 4 years ago in Spectrum LSF / License Management 1 Not under consideration

Enhance GSLA to enable in-queue preemption

The Guaranteed SLA system allows sharing of Resources defined by ServiceClasses. We would like to use that to allow two or more groups to pool and share compute slots, wherein they typically unused slots would be available to all of the groups. Th...
about 4 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 1 Not under consideration

New metrics available in LSF 10.1.14 [CPU Peak, cpu_efficiency ...] need to be captured in RTM

Collecting Job data like [CPU Peak, cpu_efficiency ...] will be very useful for Analysis.
over 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Operations/RTM 1 Planned for future release

Allow functionality to save report selections in explorer GUI

Currently there is no option to save selections( time, dimensions, mesures, filters) made by a user on a given Explorer report.
over 5 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Reporting/Explorer 1 Not under consideration

Extend Role-based access control to data columns

We are facing the need to limit access to certain data columns/fields in LSF Explorer for certain roles. In our environment a few different teams will make use of the reporting capabilities of LSF Explorer in different scopes. Nevertheless, LSF Ex...
almost 3 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Reporting/Explorer 2 Not under consideration

Cleanup user details with bqueues -lr output if they don't have running/done jobs in system

Currently, we can find thousands of entries for all users even though they have ZERO STARTED jobs as listed in bqueues -lr output. For some of larger farms, these entries are close to 7M records and bqueues -lr takes long time to return the data. ...
over 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 2 Planned for future release

Add those 'HOSTS:' column for Queues, Pools, and Host Groups as defined in the lsb.* files

RTM does a good job normalizing the display of hosts in each of these categories, but having the raw value, as entered by the administrator is also very useful for operations. Currently, these values are not collected.
over 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Operations/RTM 2 Not under consideration