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Spectrum LSF

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lsgrun support for unix groups transfer and more than 16 unix groups

lsgrun is massively used by software editor to start shared daemons (between all user jobs or other user jobs running on the same exec host) excluded from job accounting. In some cases, these daemons need to preserve user unix groups list for insu...
over 4 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Delivered

Set the maximum pending jobs/tasks limitation for forwarding jobs for users.

Set the maximum pending jobs/tasks limitation for forwarding jobs for users.
over 4 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Delivered

To report Total & reserved & used memory graph through rpt_hardware_raw table

We would like to report graphically reserved, used, total memory by LSF cluster from rpt_hardware_raw table. There is MEM_REQ field in rpt_jobmart_raw table & is related to job but that doesn't give picture by LSF cluster.
over 9 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Delivered

Allow Resource Reservations to be Calculated at Dispatch Time

Currently, LSF allows a customer to define a very specific resource reservation for things like license as follows: -R "rusage[mylic=7:blah]" However, many customers would like to run their jobs using a range of CPU options. For example: bsub -n 2...
about 7 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Delivered

cores limitations using affinity

In our cluster, we are very often impacted by jobs under reserving cpus (using -n option of bsub). for ex, we have a user group using a GUI for days. When the user close the GUI, it fires thousands of tar/bzip2 -9 to compress log files, making exe...
over 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Delivered

Spectrum LSF should allow user to specify GPU compute mode at job submission

Currently, the GPU compute mode must be statically set on a node in order to use the LSF implementation of GPU resources: ngpus_shared, ngpus_excl_t, ngpus_excl_p. There is no way that an administrator can predict the appropriate mode the user wan...
over 7 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Delivered

Allow RTM to define the level of pending reasons to collect

Currently RTM does not provide any pending reason precision to be collected. As such, in our case, there are way to many pending reasons in the system which makes the feature unusable. We would like to have a global setting that does the following...
over 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Operations/RTM 1 Delivered

Fixed chart of specific filter conditions

On LSF Explorer chart, we can not create charts with pre-selected filter conditions. E.g,Assuming that there are 3 to 4 filter conditions on chart.User A always selects a specific filter condition.So I want to create a new chart with these filters...
almost 5 years ago in Spectrum LSF 0 Delivered

Set the "+pref_level" for hosts or host_groups in lsb.hosts

Currently it's possible in lsb.queues to set the "+pref_level" for hosts or host_groups in the "HOSTS" section to prioritize some hosts for job submission. We have various host groups defined in lsb.hosts and would like to set the +pref_level for ...
over 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 2 Delivered

Requesting for bjobs -o

I would like to propose something about bjobs -o. The first, the License Project.There is no field for License Project. Here is some examaple of bjobs. [root@vlm1 conf]# bjobs -l 9786Job <9786>, User , Project , License Project <44>, S...
over 7 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Delivered