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Spectrum LSF

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Similarity based job scheduling

Currently LSF schedules jobs based on memory and CPU requirements, with an emphasis on the throughput. However, there are certain situations where jobs prefer to be dynamically scheduled to run on the same host, because of data locality for exampl...
over 6 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Delivered

[FP7] [Airbus] I want the PPM to accept parameters when using the job script definition

When using a JobScript Symbol and providing the file Name to call one can not provide any Parameter for this script.PPM Exits with a return Code of 127 and the Job is not submitted.If one provides a script without any Parameter this works just fine.
over 6 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Delivered

To load data through script loader at specific time

We are loading our storage dump data on weekly basis through script loader in analytics 9. As per date/time standards of Linux, shell & perl scripts, the week starts from Monday and ends on sunday. The storage data is generated on monday for w...
over 9 years ago in Spectrum LSF 3 Delivered

Need Cluster_mapping field in PA 9.1.2

This request is regarding adding cluster_mapping fields in PA 9 report tables and corresponding ETL. Currently it is missing in following ETL's in PA 9.1.2. Flow : lsfpendingreason ETL : RptPendLoader.xml Flow : FlexlmDenials, FlexeventDenials ETL...
almost 10 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Delivered

Deliver API for LSF DataManager

We need a C/C++ API for LSF DM enabling us to use LSF DM core function directly out of C/C++ programs.
over 6 years ago in Spectrum LSF 0 Delivered

RTM External Mailer

We have non domain email addresses such [Deleted] gmail accounts that need to receive emails about idle jobs etc. LSF allows use to use an external mailer. We ended up setting "LSB_MAILTO=$MY_EMAIL" which the variable looks at /etc/profile, that e...
over 3 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Delivered

Prevent non-LSF users from running computing jobs on hosts

The customer would like LSF to include a functionality, where LSF prevents non-LSF users from accessing an LSF host's computing resources. This includes even access via rsh, ssh, or similar methods alike. The purpose of this function is so that LS...
over 3 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Delivered

Need feature to query which hosts are allocated to specificed serviceclass

Dear supports,We want a feature/option to query which hosts are allocated to the specified serviceclass. Currently there is no directly query method to get the result. Can you consider add such feature in LSF10.1 ?
over 6 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Delivered

bjdepinfo errors when dependent jobs are no longer in memory

When dependent jobs drop out of memory (after CLEAN_PERIOD), bjdepinfo gives an error: $ bjdepinfo : Failed in an LSF library call: Internal library error Dependent jobs need to be kept in memory, either by default, or by a setting a parameter sim...
over 3 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Delivered

Show specified fields value in bhosts

Here is an example of bhosts -l. bhosts -lHOST pkgpu0049STATUS CPUF JL/U MAX NJOBS RUN SSUSP USUSP RSV DISPATCH_WINDOWclosed_Full 40.00 - 24 24 24 0 0 0 - CURRENT LOAD USED FOR SCHEDULING: r15s r1m r15m ut pg io ls it tmp swp mem slots ngpus Total...
over 6 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Delivered