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Spectrum LSF

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LSF eauth setuid bit

I have a request for setuid permission in LSF eauth file. Our customers use only root accounts for LSF services. Under these conditions,the customer request an official method to delete the setuid permission of the LSF eauth file. Because if root ...
about 3 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration

Can blstat add one more column showing pending jobs

If LSF_LIC_SCHD_RSV_FOR_PEND_JOB=Y in lsf.conf, license demand is from all pending jobs no matter pending reason.If do not set LSF_LIC_SCHD_RSV_FOR_PEND_JOB in lsf.conf, license demand is from pending jobs with pending reason related license.But b...
over 6 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration

PIM does not calculate memory utilization properly 100% of the time

PIM doesn't detect vfork() 100% of the time for Java 1.8 when checking the threads status. There are times when PIM reads memory value the vfork() as double or triple the actual amount of memory actually being used. I don't think this scenario can...
over 6 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration

fairshare policy within a leaf node of fairshare tree based on application type or project or user

Fairshare applies to the leaf level project code (user group) and within a user the jobs are dispatched on the order in which they are submitted . The order can be altered by changing the priority using "-sp" butt his allows only to specify array3...
over 6 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration

Make lsadmin/badmin accept "yes" and "no" as answers

Questions asked by `lsadmin` and `badmin` (and maybe other administrative LSF commands) only accept "y" and "n" as answers. "yes" and "no" are not accepted but should be
about 3 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 0 Not under consideration

GPU Usage for charge back

Chargeback report in LSF explorer reports usage based on slots that are tied to CPU cores. Deep learning experiments use CPUs and GPUs, we need chargeback to include GPU usage so that the target users/departments can be charged appropriately.
about 3 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Reporting/Explorer 1 Not under consideration

user max priority issue

When user submits with larger user priority than MAX_USER_PRIORITY, the job should be accepted with MAX_USER_PRIORITY instead of being rejected. So if MAX_USER_PRIORITY is 100, and user submits with -sp 101 it should still take job with job priori...
over 6 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration

energy usage reporting (EAS) not working on intel x86_64 servers

During the testing of EAS on my Dell/HPE hardwares running Linux/CentOS - I figured out that various features in EAS is not really working on these hardwares and they may be only designed for IBM Hardware like Power Systems. Worked with Support on...
over 3 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration

host power management 'EAS' feature for x86_64 h/w

During the testing of EAS on my Dell/HPE hardwares running Linux/CentOS - I figured out that various features in EAS is not really working on these hardwares and they may be only designed for IBM Hardware like Power Systems. Worked with Support on...
over 3 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration

Job Preemption fails for LSF host(group) based slot limit

LSF based job preemption doesn't work when hitting host/host-group based CPU slot limits.The reason cited by IBM is that in LSF, currently, the system counts the no. of CPU slots for preempted/suspended jobs towards respecting the limit. This is n...
over 6 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration

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