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Spectrum LSF

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Threshold for over allocation in License Scheduler

Based on the license availability and the demand from certain project(s), LSF License scheduler can allocate more license to a project, then its define share of licenses. If limits are defined, it leads to under utilization and wastage of licenses...
over 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / License Management 3 Not under consideration

Preserving job array conditions in multicluster

Job array conditions are widely used on our machines to manage when jobs are dispatched. Certain workflows require specific job stepping. Job array conditions aren't present in a multicluster environment. Our workaround involves submitting a job i...
about 8 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Not under consideration

Simplify the Removal of a specific select string or rusage from a running or pending job

It would be nice if we simply had the ability to bmod away a reservation without having to reconstruct the entirety of the bsub -R "blah" syntax. I would much prefer to do something like: bmod --remove-reservation mylicense [options] jobid ... V...
over 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration

In bhpart output, there's STARTED and RESERVED slots number, but no PEND slots number. We need the number of PEND slots for b

In bhpart output, there's STARTED and RESERVED slots number, but no PEND slots number. We need the number of PEND slots for business purpose.
over 5 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration

In the "bresource -gl" output, there is slot number of "GUARANTEE CONFIGURED", "GUARANTEE USED" and "TOTAL USED", but no "PEN

In the "bresource -gl" output, there is slot number of "GUARANTEE CONFIGURED", "GUARANTEE USED" and "TOTAL USED", but no "PEND" slots number. We need the number of "PEND" slots for business purpose.
over 5 years ago in Spectrum LSF 0 Not under consideration

change in the way graceful exits are handled/reported

When LSF sends kill signal to job, based on the time job takes to complete, it sometimes return "0" exit code and sometimes non-zero. This leads to diff message being return by LSF commands. In this RFE I would like to address ::1. What exit code ...
over 5 years ago in Spectrum LSF 3 Not under consideration

cleanup of Old LOAD_INDEX records from lsb.events

The investigation indicates that LOAD_INDEX record is written to lsb.events when there is change (addition/deletion) in load indices. The records are not automatically cleaned and have no impact to performance unless there are a quite a lot of the...
over 5 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration

LSF 10.06 can not supoort GPU autoconfig function on HUAWEI server

LSF 10.06 can not support GPU autoconfig function on HUAWEI server.
over 5 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration

Show complete names and pathes of error and output files in the LSF RTM grid console

RTM truncates the names/pathes of error and output files in the grid console which makes the filenames for long pathes unreadable and potentially indistinguishable, i.e. unusable.
over 5 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration

Adding forking child to sbatchd can prevent significant delays and cascading problems associated with slow cgroup writes.

Platform LSF's root sbatchd daemon on the execution host gets stuck while writing to one of the cgroup subsystem. This causes the host to show unreachable status, and no new jobs will be dispatched to this host. Jobs which were already running on ...
over 8 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Not under consideration