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Spectrum LSF

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Allow 'ssacct' to work without specifying a file path when the session is still running

Currently Session Scheduler's 'ssacct' command works without the -f option only when the Session is finished. LSF knows where the account file is when the job is running, so why can we not see the account output when the session is running?
10 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 0 Delivered

Email disable for mbatchd and enable for sbatchd

Currently , there is no way to seperately disable mbatchd emails v/s sbatchd emails. Means. We have set email set to N in lsf.conf , so that by default job report emails are not sent. However some users who need email can set in their environment ...
11 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 1 Delivered

lshosts -gpu gives 'Segmentation fault'

After LSF upgrade to 10.1.0.13 and applying patch lsf10.1_lnx310-lib217-x86_64-601448.tar.Z getting error in lshosts -gpu command. We have added below lines in lsf.conf which are conflicting with the patch. We have commented the lines and checked ...
about 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 0 Delivered

Would like a way to stop/suspend/resume a task inside a Session Scheduler job

This would be pretty useful for debugging a broken task or one that needs to be suspended for a time.
about 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 1 Delivered

Provide a bjobs equivalent for all active sessions in a Session Scheduler job

We need to have a way to see which tasks are running and how long they have been running to find potentially 'stuck' processes.
about 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 1 Delivered

Enabling Multiple MPI like OpenMPI, mvapich, and others for distributed processing Systems for optimized processing

IBM, Intel, Nvidia, and others have their own optimized MPI, also we found new versions of mvapich from Ohio State University, therefore we need take this suggestion into consideration. We hope that IBM Spectrum LSF have the unified management of ...
about 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Other 1 Delivered

This info is related to IBM Spectrum RTM tool license usage. Currently we could only able to monitor Lmstat and RLM license usage via RTM monitoring toll. Here my request is we need to be added all license daemon services to monitor license usage.

This info is related to IBM Spectrum RTM tool license usage. Currently we could only able to monitor Lmstat and RLM license usage via RTM monitoring toll. Here my request is we need to be added all license daemon services to monitor license usage....
about 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / License Management 1 Delivered

Listening to jobstates

We submit our jobs to LSF with the LSF API (C++, lsbatch.h). Our software has to give a feedback to the users about the current state of the jobs. For this query we call lsb_readjobinfo for each active job in our list. It can take a long time to c...
over 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 0 Delivered

hostcache auto-delete function in the mbatchd restart

Dynamic hosts remain in the cluster unless you intentionally remove them.And the manual related to it is as follows.https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/spectrum-lsf/10.1.0?topic=cluster-remove-dynamic-hostsSuppose we delete the hostcache file, not modify ...
over 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 2 Delivered

Have LSF Handle ZOMBI job searching using either BTREE or HASH ALGO's

Large number of ZOMBI jobs can impact very large clusters operations resulting in high backlogs and additional lost job status. Improving the ZOMBI search algorithm from Linear Search to BTREE or HASH would reduce this impact.
over 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 1 Delivered