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Spectrum LSF

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Create instances with EBS-Optimized enabled

For now, the LSF resource connector for AWS can only create instances without EBS-Optimized enabled.But we want to create the instances with EBS-Optimized enabled in order to archive better performance in cloud storage.
over 7 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Delivered

Allow all bjobs output to respect the LSB_DISPLAY_YEAR option for all output types

The parameter "LSB_DISPLAY_YEAR"toggles on and off inclusion of the year in the string displayed by the commands bjobs -l, bacct -l, and bhst -i | -b | -t. However the bjobs -o uses totally different logic in order to get time format is fixed C_TI...
over 7 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Delivered

Spectrum LSF Hostgroup negation to be made working

Allow for negations of hostgroups based on regular expressions in queue definition.
over 3 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 2 Delivered

no Interactive field in job detail view

In the Grid -> Job Info -> Details -> Job Details tab view, there is no field to know if it's an interactive jobs or not. A specific color is set in the Grid -> Job Info -> Details array but can be overridden by another status (for ...
over 3 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Delivered

http proxy server capability for LSF resource connector

Configuration of the resource connector to use a company owned proxy server to route http requests from local HPC LSF cluster resource connector to AWS.
over 7 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Delivered

Fix systemd unit file created by hostsetup to allow MPI jobs to use RDMA

In response to RFE #89685, requesting the creation and use of a systemd unit file, the fix 432732. The fix modified hostsetup to create the unit file, below, and register the lsfd service. [Unit]Description=IBM Spectrum LSFAfter=network.target nfs...
over 7 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Delivered

ADD vm_type field in lsb.stream

This is enhancement request to add VM_TYPE field in lsb.stream's JOB_FINISH2 event as well as in LSB.STATUS's JOB_STATUS2 event whereever possible.
over 3 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Cloud Bursting 2 Delivered

Add RC_Account field in lsb.stream

This is enhancement request to add RC_ACCOUNT field in JOB_FINISH2 event of lsb.stream. This event is already present in JOB_FINISH event of lsb.stream.
over 3 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Cloud Bursting 2 Delivered

Show number of requested slots for pending jobs in bjobs output

The main unit for jobs in our setup is cores, i.e. one slot correspond to one core. For jobs that use affinity, e.g. hybrid MPI-OpenMP jobs, the number of slots for pending jobs only shows the slots given with the '-n' option of bsub, i.e. the num...
over 7 years ago in Spectrum LSF 6 Delivered

Spectrum LSF GPU Binding

Due to the way that LSF queries information about the GPU the devices and kernel module are held open by sbatchd. This has the effect of disallowing GPU resets, changing compute mode or other similar commands. After consulting with NVIDIA and LSF ...
over 7 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Delivered