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Spectrum LSF

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Increase available number of global job ids for LSF

Current job id is limited to 32b. With ever growing number of jobs and scaling of multi-cluster use, the job id should be extended beyond 32b to avoid frequent rollover situations and/or cases of redundant ids. Recommend to increase to 64b or more.
3 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 0 Planned for future release

Keep in memory jobs killed over PTL (Pending Time Limit)

Hi, following suggestion in IBM support case. We see that jobs killed over PTL are immediately removed from LSF master memory so that even while a job ID was issued during submit, status check via bjobs/bhist does not find such job ID resulting in...
about 1 month ago in Spectrum LSF / Operations/RTM 0

Support combination of MIG and DCGM in GPUs with LSF

I got confirmation from dev team. Unfortunately, the combination of MIG and DCGM is not supported yet. So, for now, you cannot get job GPU information if MIG is enabled. You can raise an RFE on this matter so we can keep track of the request.
6 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Operations/RTM 1 Planned for future release

Enable the copy - paste functions from local PC to VNC graphical sessions opened within the Application Center (PAC) portal

Copy and paste functions from local PC to VNC sessions are crucial to work in a smooth way. These functionalities are not available in the PAC portal product. Copy /paste "echo hello" from notepad opened locally on the PC to VNC terminal in PAC wi...
about 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / End User UI/Applicaton Center 1 Not under consideration

support job submission from standalone container

currently, when trying to submit a job from a standalone we have a eauth error: Oct 15 17:37:44 2024 1467470 3 10.1 isRetryErrorType: Error type <79> is not defined in LSB_BSUB_ERR_RETRY. Failed in an LSF library call: External authenticatio...
3 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Other 0 Planned for future release

"lim -t" phrases for aarch

Referring to TS018491466. We obtain the following architecture details by doing the $LSF_SERVERDIR/lim -t on the AARCH machines. AArch64Processorrev2aarch64 AArch64Processorrev1aarch64 AArch64Processorrev0aarch64 And this looks to not be in phrase...
about 2 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 0 Future consideration

LSF podman nvidia cdi mig mode support

Recently ,we are trying to integrate podman with nvidia gpu and lsf together per nvidia official document Installing the NVIDIA Container Toolkit — NVIDIA Container Toolkit, it suggests podman using CDI to read nvidia gpu device but when do integr...
about 2 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Other 1 Planned for future release

Add INCLUDE file capabilities into LSF License Scheduler configuration

The ability to specify the License Scheduler configuration in multiple include files where each include file contains the separate configuration of each independent software vendor. For example, #INCLUDE /path/cadence.lsf.license_scheduler #INCLUD...
2 months ago in Spectrum LSF / License Management 0 Planned for future release

Support MIG declaration in resource connector templates for gpu VMs

We use to provision new GPU hosts (having MIG enabled using post install) in cloud using resource connector but when the job contains "mig" in the gpu resource requirement, it does not provision the host. When checked upon to declare MIG in the re...
2 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Cloud Bursting 0 Planned for future release

Affinity scheduling must take L3 cache hierarchy into account

Newer CPUs have multiple L3 caches, with dedicated cores per L3 cache. Running multi-threaded jobs on all cores within a shared L3 cache can reduce runtime in our cases up 70%, compared to running over multiple L3 caches. Think of the AMD EPYC 935...
7 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 2 Planned for future release

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