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Spectrum LSF

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Increase max export rows for RTM

The default maximum number of rows RTM can export to Excel is 50k. It's possible to increase this (https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/modify-number-export-rows-you-can-set-rtm-console), but would be nice to have a larger option built into RTM.
almost 3 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Operations/RTM 2 Not under consideration

Add field to bhosts -o

In the latest LSF version, bhosts -o does not have a field to show Reserved resources value. Could you please add a field for memory reserved column in bhosts -o? We can check Reserved Memory in bhosts -l, but it would be helpful if we coul...
over 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 0 Future consideration

Add Effective Memory Utilization to All Statistics Tables

RTM maintains a consistent set of ETL's across multiple dimensions. It is the same table structure for all of these ETL's. However, a key metric is missing from the ETL's and it's the effective memory utilization. In other words sum(max_memory) /s...
almost 3 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Operations/RTM 1 Not under consideration

Support JSON Output Format for the LSB Stream File

We have a number of downstream uses for the LSB Stream file. One of the downsides of the current format is that it can be difficult to read and parse. If this file where had an options to be written in JSON format, it would be much easier to consu...
over 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 1 Not under consideration

Is it possible to use a SAML proxy as an workaround of LSF PAC that does not support of Azure AD?

Dear experts, We expect to integrate Azure AD into Application Center, but LSF PAC does not support of Azure AD. So I would like to ask the experts from IBM if it is possible to use a SAML proxy as an workaround of LSF PAC that does not support of...
over 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / End User UI/Applicaton Center 0 Future consideration

When a Benchmark job fails It would be nice to see the bsub used to submit the job

We can manually construct the actual bsub, but it would be nice to be able to cut and paste it when editing the Benchmark job so we can test that it actually will work. In one case we were getting "Queue Permission Errors" and it having that bsub ...
almost 3 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Reporting/Explorer 2 Not under consideration

LSF to track SSH and child processes on machines running LSF jobs

To prevent users from sshing into nodes that they do not have a running job on, to restrict the SSH session to the resources that the runing job has on the machine (e.g. cgroups ), to track the ssh connection and any other spawned processes for ac...
over 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 0 Future consideration

LSF Default Memory UNIT display issue in bacct command

In our production cluster LSF_UNIT_FOR_LIMITS=MBis defined.When we are fetching bacct information then we can see below: Accounting information about this job:Share group charged </jayaward>CPU_T WAIT TURNAROUND STATUS HOG_FACTOR MEM SWAP300...
over 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Operations/RTM 0 Future consideration

Graph visibility for shared host groups in different queues

We have sharing of hostgroup resources in our cluster like below : eshwloginlpp024.emea.nsn-net.net @ /metaroot : bqueues -l bUSERS: all HOSTS: hg_batch_rh7_he6+5 hg_batch_rh7_telia+5 hg_gpu_he6/ hg_gpu_telia/ eshwloginlpp024.emea.nsn-net.net @ /m...
over 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Operations/RTM 0 Future consideration

LSF: tmp (in tmpfs) monitoring when cgroup enabled

when cgroup is enabled on both OS & LSF, it's now possible to account tmp usage for jobs when /tmp FS is in tmpfs. ("cache" value of "memory.stat" cgroup file, that can be excluded from swap using "LSB_CGROUP_MEM_INCLUDE_CACHE" parameter) Is i...
over 8 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Not under consideration