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Spectrum LSF

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When a job is running and stopped by "bstop" command, the slots of the suspended job can not be used by other pending jobs. T

When a job is running and stopped by "bstop" command, the slots of the suspended job can not be used by other pending jobs. The behavior is not reasonable because it causes the computing resources are wasted. We request the slots of the suspended ...
about 5 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration

Enable more dynamic tags in LSF resource connector

Currently in Resource connector only one dynamic tag called "RC_ACCOUNT" is enabled but we would like to have more such dynamic tags which can be used along with bsub command.Example;Current tag takes only " -P project_name" as a dynamic tag . But...
almost 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Cloud Bursting 1 Not under consideration

Job slot of suspended jobs should be used in pending jobs

Hi Team, I would like pending jobs to be executed on the slots, where jobs are suspended using bstop command. Currently its not happening and those suspended job slots are remains unused. I request you to have a look and fix this issues in future ...
over 3 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 1 Future consideration

prevent LSF docker jobs from failing with unuseful error message

When submitting docker jobs, using LSF (with the -app bsub option), the entire user's env is sent directly to the docker-current command (with the --env-file docker option), even though the docker-current command does not accept certain env variab...
over 5 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration

json format of lsb.acct log file

It will help with using Splunk for searching and analysis usage of HPC.
almost 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Reporting/Explorer 1 Not under consideration

To be able to kill a specific process from a job

Hello, Sometimes, a job is completely stucked due to a specific process. Customer doesn't want to kill the whole job because he is waiting for the result of job. Would it possible to add the ability to kill a specific process from a job without ki...
over 5 years ago in Spectrum LSF 4 Not under consideration

LSF should always reject submitting jobs which request slots over slot limit.

A job with over limit slot request still can be submitted when the slot limit is configured with USERS. For example: With SUERS configured, job can be submitted and stays pending: Begin Limit NAME = TestQueueSiJobLimit QUEUES = priority SLOTS = 3 ...
over 5 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration

Need lsmake which is supprts Gmake v4.2.1 or later

Current lsmake4 version supports GNU Make 4.0Customer environment uses Gmake v4.2.1 . We need lsmake4 to support Gmake v4.2.1 to enable make through LSF.
over 3 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Other 0 Planned for future release

Add quick help to RTM graphs when hovering the mouse on top of the graph

Show short help for each RTM graph while user hovers the mouse on top of the graph. Short help should have information of purpose of the graph and units of X and Y axels.
over 3 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Operations/RTM 1 Not under consideration

LSF doesn't allow multiple LOAN policies on the same hosts

LSF has limitation in SLA LOAN_POLICIES configuration by having only one loan duration time available. It would be great, if SLA LOAN_POLICIES can support option to LOAN for different time to different queues. For example:LOAN_POLICIES = QUEUES[ge...
over 3 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 1 Not under consideration