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Spectrum LSF

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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...
almost 3 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Delivered

Allow bjobs -o to display the asked host list specified by bsub -m

We need to display the asked host list specified by bsub -m in the bjobs -o output. We need to parse the asked host list for data statistics to improve the utilization of the computing resources.
almost 6 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Delivered

Format options for bacct, similar to those for bjobs(Address in 114254)

Similar to how bjobs has -UF and -o , it would be really useful to have the same reporting capabilities for bacct
almost 9 years ago in Spectrum LSF 3 Delivered

Job pend time statistic error

Description: By definition, job pend time should be pre-exec time minus submit time, but the job pend time taken by Explorer is run time minus submit time, which contains pre-execution time.According to the explorer support professional, the job p...
almost 6 years ago in Spectrum LSF 0 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...
almost 3 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Operations/RTM 1 Delivered

Relax GPU affinity while maintaining Core affinity

Prior to the introduction of the LSB_GPU_NEW_SYNTAX=extend it was possible to have jobs using core affinity and be assigned to cores on a cpu that is not directly connected to the gpu that was assigned to the job. After the introduction it will al...
about 6 years ago in Spectrum LSF 3 Delivered

Python-LSF interface for Windows

The currently available Python-LSF interface (based on SWIG) supports Linux, but not Windows.
about 6 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Delivered

LSF Smart Memory Limit - conditional opt-out

We have implemented the 'Smart Memory Limit' functionality, which 99% of our users like. But there are a few users who relied on the old situation (Hard Memory limit, where jobs were killed when they hit the MEMLIMIT). Can we have a way for users ...
about 6 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 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 ...
about 3 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 2 Delivered

Support LSF_UNIT_FOR_LIMITS for "tmp".

Support LSF_UNIT_FOR_LIMITS for "tmp". LSF support "LSF_UNIT_FOR_LIMITS" for core/memory/stack/swap (man page of lsf.conf), but didn't implement to support "tmp". When I defined LSF_UNIT_FOR_LIMITS=GB, the value of resource requirement for "tmp" d...
about 9 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Delivered