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Spectrum LSF

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Use all applicable NUMA Memory information on a machine to determine available Memory resources before dispatching a job to a machine

We were noticing that jobs were being terminated by LSF with the message: TERM_MEMLIMIT: job killed after reaching LSF memory usage limit.Exited with exit code 137. Yet, this was happening before the job had even consumed the amount of memory rese...
over 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 0 Planned for future release

allow RTM reporting to export excel data

The Reporting tool in cacti gives the option of sending out periodical usage graphs to users. It would be great to also have the option of including raw CSV data in these reports. The workaround is to log into RTM and manually grab the CSV export,...
about 3 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Operations/RTM / Reporting/Explorer 2 Not under consideration

Improve existing ZOMBI handling with regards to both SBD and MBD process flows

It will reduce the persistence of ZOMBI jobs in LSF to a shorter time period. Here are the two areas that need improvement. 1) Currently, even though the SBD daemons may be running on a host, a job will remain in ZOMBI status until the SBD is rest...
over 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 0 Future consideration

License Scheduler fix INUSE license token detection on same-server Jobs

The License Scheduler is unable to correctly identify the INUSE and RESERVE values of requested tokens (e.g. rusage[MYTOKEN=4], when more than one jobs run on the same server by the same user. Possible solution:This could be solved, if the License...
over 4 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Not under consideration

PSUSP jobs need JOB_CONTROLS

Users need notifications when jobs are PSUSP due to pre-exec failures, and JOB_CONTROLS do not work because the job isn't RUN when it is suspended. We also need a tunable parameter to have these jobs killed after some amount of time.
over 6 years ago in Spectrum LSF 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 Planned for future release

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

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 Planned for future release

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