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Spectrum LSF

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Support or remove user defined dynamic resources from lsb.hosts file

Elim resources are used to present unique resources and values to the scheduler. Dynamic resources are not supported in the LSF simulator and are converted to static resources in the lsf.cluster file and in the lsf.shared file. However these resou...
over 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Simulation & Prediction 1 Not under consideration

Two Design Flaws in Run Limit Reporting in RTM

Currently in RTM, there two design gaps in the RunLimit features. They are: 1) No way to exclude queues such as 'short' 2) Emails are sent one at a time, which in our case results in 77k emails sent randomly. It would be better to 'consolidate' Em...
over 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Operations/RTM 1 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...
almost 8 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Not under consideration

Provide Minor Enhancement to 'bjobs -env jobid' Command to search and return variables server side

The 'bjobs -env jobid' command is very useful, but in our environment, the job environment can be very large. We plan to use this command as a part of our ESUB modify controls and it could be called quite frequently. Therefore, it will generate a ...
over 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 3 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