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Spectrum LSF

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Improve Session Scheduler by Supporting Per Job Accounting File Location

Main Issue: Unable to define a user/job specific accounting file location. Discussion: There is a lsb.params variable for the session scheduler account directory. That’s well and good, but it’s not in a very accessible location. It would be better...
over 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 0 Future consideration

Enhance Session Scheduler Task Accounting File Options

Going over the available documentation on Session Scheduler, I’ve found a few gap under a single class of gap that will limit adoption, though I must say, the solution is not that far off from perfect. Main Issue: Unable to define a user/job speci...
over 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 1 Not under consideration

Enable filter option for Name column in Paltform Application Center

Need a filter on Name column in PAC GUI. User want to apply name filter to see the jobs among listed (1000) jobs in single a page.
over 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / End User UI/Applicaton Center 0 Planned for future release

Enabling the Batch processing based on Compute Express Link CXL 3.0 or CXL 4.0 Fabrics

CXL 3.0 is built upon the IBM OpenCAPI, but CXL3 and CXL 4 have more speeds and will achieve the following: 1- Enabling the Interconnection between IBM LinuxONE and Exa scale AI Data Centers based on Nvidia DGX H100 based on Nvidia H100 GPUs and I...
over 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Other 1 Not under consideration

Adding heterogeneous processing CPUs, GPUs and FPGA Accelerator for Spectrum LSF

In the near future we will need more advanced distributed heterogeneous processing , We think it is better to take into consideration the Intel oneAPI and other tools like oneDNN, oneDAL ,...etc. It may need joining openPOWER foundation and IBM wi...
over 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Other 1 Not under consideration

Allow preemption of shared gpu jobs (j_exclusive=no) by higher priority job queues.

We need the LSF support for preemption of shared gpu jobs. Currently GPU preemption is supported only for jobs in mode j_exclusive=yes This is a very big problem as we have a significant waste of gpu memory resource. because if a lower priority jo...
over 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 1 Not under consideration

Aggregate user licence usage graphs and license project usage graphs in RTM

We request an automation that can aggregate the license usage graphs of a user for every license service defined. For example, if there are 3 license services defined, by default 3 license usage graphs are generated for each user. There is no way ...
over 5 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration

Enable Edit/Modify option for the default Charts/Reports in LSF Explorer

Can we have edit/modify option enabled for the existing default graphs/charts ? This could be limited with Role - Either a new permission added to the Report Administrator or Have a new Role.
over 5 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Not under consideration

Add regular expression filtering for Job Name, Project, and Job Group for searching for jobs

Presently, filtering by wildcard in LSF is only supported in two location, and that filtering is quite limited. It would be nice to extend that filtering to regular expressions and extend it to key fields like project name.
almost 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 1 Not under consideration

RTM should be able to properly parse effective and/or combined resource requirements and handle both compound and /task, /host, and /job reservations to determine pending/reserved memory

RTM calculates pending and running memory reservations by parsing the resource requirements string. However, it currently is not properly calculating that memory reservation for either compound resource requirements or with the new per /task, /hos...
almost 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Operations/RTM 1 Not under consideration