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Spectrum LSF

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Set 2 levels for loadSched

1. By design, if the loadSched condition is not satisfied, no jobs can be dispatched to the host. Even if we submit a job which will not use the lacking resource, the job can't be dispatched to the host, either. 2. We think this is a waste of the ...
over 8 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Not under consideration

RTM: add csv export icon to job graphs

add an 'export csv' icon on job graphs, like all other graphs, to allow export graph data to use it in presentation, etc...
over 5 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration

Add status based on feature version

We would like to be able to distinguish feature usage by version.
over 5 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration

$TMPDIR not retained in post_exec

$TMPDIR not reatained in post_exec of jobs when LSB_SET_TMPDIR is set to TMPDIR in lsf.conf.
almost 6 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration

Support Process Reeping Plugin

Support a daemon, that when enabled, will remove interactive logins from the host for users who do not have workload on those systems. This can presently be done through an ELIM, but it would be nice if it were in the core of our process monitorin...
almost 6 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration

Can bstop release slots in order that other jobs can start on the same host ?

Here is an example. I tried the following case. gnx5561 has been booked by advanced reservation: RSVID TYPE USER NCPUS RSV_HOSTS TIME_WINDOW res0 group res0 3/4 gnx5561:3/4 7/28/18/0-7/30/12/0 I have launched one job reserving 3 cpus (857274). It ...
almost 9 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Not under consideration

Support bimages for podman

Hello, we want to enable users running podman to perform management of images downloaded by the podman. The management includes clean-up of images based on some policy like LRU or any other that user decides. I think bimages is supported for docke...
almost 3 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 2 Not under consideration

LSF License Scheduler to support FlexNet Manager

License Scheduler parses the output of lmstat to "know" the relationship between job and license. The limitation is that lmstat doesn't provide sufficient information and it has chance that LS cannot accurately knows that which job is holding whic...
about 6 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration

lsdmin trigger a parallel restart when host is removed from lsf.c<cluster>file

lsadmin reconfig after a host is removed from lsf. triggers a mbatchd reconfig which is causing a disruption in job submission as this is a not a parallel restart . This request is to change this behavior to a parallel restart rather than normal r...
about 6 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration

RTM: add grid cache directory purge feature

currently, the directory use for job graphs (specified in the "Console->Grid Settings->Paths->Grid Cache Dir" field) is never clean up. can you please add feature to purge this directory to avoid disk space saturation ?
about 9 years ago in Spectrum LSF 3 Not under consideration