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Spectrum LSF

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Add Resource Description to Table grid_hosts_resources

We currently have a need to view Shared Resources via their Description. It would be nice if: 1) This data was in the grid_hosts_resources table 2) There was a searchable description column under the Shared Resources Report view in RTM
over 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Operations/RTM 1 Not under consideration

Have launchTemplateId/Instance template for LSF Google Resource Connector work the same as if launching from Google cli/portal

Google LSF Resource Connector has the option to launch VMs based off Instance Template feature of GCP thru the launchTemplateId field in googleprov_templates.json. There is additional flexibility in being able to override settings defined in the I...
over 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Cloud Bursting 0 Future consideration

bsub should accept a cpu_efficiency parameter to allow cpu over-commiting in the pool

It's rare for a job to achieve close to 100% cpu efficiency. Often, jobs have a peak cpu requirement during its execution lifetime but use less cpus in average. If bsub could be told that a job is expected to run with a given cpu efficiency, LSF c...
over 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Simulation & Prediction 2 Not under consideration

Change job submit time to include milliseconds for precision.

Job submit time to include milliseconds for precision. Instead of HH:MM:SS, make it like 12:29:05.1234. This will enable this column to be used as a unique identifier when generating data in an incremental fashion. We are extracting the RTM data a...
over 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Reporting/Explorer 4 Not under consideration

Enable more dynamic tags in LSF resource connector

Currently in Resource connector only one dynamic tag called "RC_ACCOUNT" is enabled but we would like to have more such dynamic tags which can be used along with bsub command.Example;Current tag takes only " -P project_name" as a dynamic tag . But...
over 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Cloud Bursting 1 Not under consideration

Add Regular Expressions for Project Limits and SLA Auto-Attach and Permissions

We utilize hierarchical projects and at times we would like to allow certain projects and certain functions, both that are a part of the hierarchy to utilize an SLA, for example, assume that the project has three levels project_code:finance_code:f...
over 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 0 Future consideration

json format of lsb.acct log file

It will help with using Splunk for searching and analysis usage of HPC.
almost 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Reporting/Explorer 1 Not under consideration

Ability to limit user's views in RTM to select clusters

Reduces support because users can't flip to other clusters via Cluster drop-down menu to then ask questions about resources and usage or see other information that should only be for users of a particular cluster or why can't they find their infor...
almost 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Operations/RTM 1 Not under consideration

allow update for span string after a job is started

Hello, currently, it's not possible to update the span string after a job is started. for ex: a user start a multinodes jobs using bsub .... -n x -R ".. span[ptile=y]" ... unfortunately, he forgot to specify to the tool to start in mutlinodes an...
almost 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 1 Not under consideration

Preemption support for MIG GPU jobs

We would like that preemption will be supported also for MIG jobs(A100 dgx mig devices). Currently the preemption is not working for this type of jobs. Example scenatiois: kill two or more jobs and reconfigure mig to have the new job run. We need ...
almost 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 2 Future consideration