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Spectrum LSF

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Add quick help to RTM graphs when hovering the mouse on top of the graph

Show short help for each RTM graph while user hovers the mouse on top of the graph. Short help should have information of purpose of the graph and units of X and Y axels.
over 3 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Operations/RTM 1 Not under consideration

bmod jobs for per queue, or per user

Currently bmod runs per job so if there are 20000 running jobs, I've to run bmod 20000 times, one for each job. Can bmod have functionality like bkill to update bulk jobs , based on certain criteria like for user, queue, hostgroup etc ?
over 3 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 3 Not under consideration

RTM to/from LSF communication of Psusp-requeue job notifcation

We have reproduced the issue and it's a timing issue with RTM because LSF does not provide exitinfo when job's pre-exec fails and requeued. Since RTM relies on exitinfo to put it in the correct table, the changes will have to come from LSF. This w...
over 3 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Operations/RTM 0 Not under consideration

LSF Explorer flexusage data collection from remote (EU) data collector to (US)Explorer server signficantly lags

A data collection host in Europe takes more than 5 minutes to send data collected in past 5 minutes to ES located in US and cause data lagging. Expect to enhance the data transferring between continentals
over 3 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Reporting/Explorer 0 Not under consideration

Set a limit for service class

It would be useful to set a limit in lsb.resources for Serive Class "SLA" in order give some minimum guarantee with SLA and set a maximium number of resorucese usable in this SLA.It would be excellent to indicate the limit with the number of nodes...
almost 4 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 1 Not under consideration

Transfering free value to another project in LS immediately

< Condition > Let's suppose,- There are two prjects in LS, prj1 and prj2.- There are two license features, lic1 and lic2.- There are two free lic1 and many free lic2 are remained.- Between prj1 and prj2, SHARE mode, 50%:50%.So, for lic1, prj...
almost 4 years ago in Spectrum LSF / License Management 2 Not under consideration

Process Manager Partial migration

Requesting capability to migrate flow definitions and flow history partially
almost 4 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration

Added multicluster collection function

System: LSF ExplorerActor: system adminThe only tool that can report when configuring a multi-cluster by expanding the cluster is currently Explorer.Currently, customers are operating in a single cluster size with more than 8,000 nodes, and they a...
almost 4 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration

How to start/stop/restart Suite services on all the nodes in Suite cluster

Currently cluster admin needs to run "systemctl" for all the suite services. It's hard to remember which Suite services are running on which role of nodes in Suite cluster - different services are on master, GUI and compute nodes. So there is a ne...
almost 4 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 0 Not under consideration

GPU report works with exclusive jobs

To use the GPU accounting, our users have to submit exclusive GPU jobs. We would like our users to submit both exclusive and non-exclusive jobs. Since GPU accounting is important to us, we have to configure our queues to make all submitted GPU job...
almost 4 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration