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Spectrum LSF

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Support btop with a job name.

We need a feature to btop a job name to put all the jobs with the specified job name to the top of the queue.
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 ...
about 8 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Not under consideration

Please allow host_group to be used in brun -m

There is -m option in brun command.By using -m option, we can define specified hosts separately. But client want to use host_group in -m option for brun as like bsub.We can use host_group with -m option in bsub.But We can't use it with brun.So cli...
over 5 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration

LSF / Extend "span[hosts=xx]" capability to several hosts to optimize cpu utilization in exclusive context

There is no way today to optimize CPU utilization over several hosts, i.e. to specify on how many servers the job should be dispatched, and let LSF use all available cpu on these hosts. This works fine with 1 single host, using cpu range and "span...
over 8 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Not under consideration

RTM License Accounting by Token Cost, not Monthly Total Cost

The new License Accounting feature could be extremely useful. This concept was presented to us by Larry Adams, Cacti Architect. Currently, you can define an 'application' and a monthly cost for whatever licenses are associated with that applicatio...
over 5 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration

Could add custom tab for a flow

In AC we can create custom tab, with "Edit Page" function. The request is to have the same behavior for flow.You can find a screenshot (CustomPage_newTab_Jobs.png) of a Job details, and we can add a custom tab to display more information.For Flow ...
over 5 years ago in Spectrum LSF 0 Not under consideration

Have the possibility to add graph for a flow

Have the possibility to add graph for a flow.AC could add a custom graph to follow a jobs (see screenshot AddGraph_JobsSubmissionForm_ok.png), the request is to have the same behaviour for a flow, in order to follow an indicator of the convergence...
over 5 years ago in Spectrum LSF 0 Not under consideration

blimits -n to select multiple limit name

blimits man pages says that's possible to select multiple limit names but it's not functional. can you please implement this functionality ?
over 5 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 0 Not under consideration

RTM: limits monitoring

We identified the needs of user limits monitoring, the blimits -w output accounting & per user|host|queue|hostgroup related graphs.
over 8 years ago in Spectrum LSF 3 Not under consideration

dynamically change the number of UJOB_LIMIT

I'd like to dynamically change the number of UJOB_LIMIT. For example that my total slots for normal.q is 3024, and my UJOB_LIMIT is set to 1000. If my number of RUN is 2733 so close to my total slots of 3024, is there a way to detect that and chan...
over 5 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration