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Spectrum LSF

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RTM License monitor

Case TS001211168 - Created - RTM License Dashboard We have been bring up license monitoring on RTM and ts working great. We would like to get more of a readers digest view for the users that list how many licenses we have and how many are checked ...
about 6 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Not under consideration

LSF should store accounting data in database

The lsb.acct log file format is anachronistic and hard for customers to deal with. To get the LSF accounting data into a relational database customers have to write their own code to parse lsb.acct files (ether via custom code such as perl/python,...
about 6 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration

badmin ckconfig with -f switch to check lsb.* files individually

When we run “badmin ckconfig” – it checks for all batch files by default.It would be great If I can check only for a certain file instead of all lsb.* files – e.g. $ badmin ckconfig -v -f lsb.queues Looking forward to such a feature.
about 6 years ago in Spectrum LSF 4 Not under consideration

Add Resource Description to Table grid_hosts_resources

We currently have a need to view Shared Resources via their Description. It would be nice if: 1) This data was in the grid_hosts_resources table 2) There was a searchable description column under the Shared Resources Report view in RTM
about 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Operations/RTM 1 Not under consideration

Have launchTemplateId/Instance template for LSF Google Resource Connector work the same as if launching from Google cli/portal

Google LSF Resource Connector has the option to launch VMs based off Instance Template feature of GCP thru the launchTemplateId field in googleprov_templates.json. There is additional flexibility in being able to override settings defined in the I...
about 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Cloud Bursting 0 Future consideration

bsub fairshare of users

Some users use a script which spawns a lot scripts, say 1000 scripts, tosubmit jobs to LSF synchronously. So a lot of jobs from this user submittedinto LSF and other users can not submit the jobs into LSF promptly with themessages of "Can not conn...
over 8 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 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...
about 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Cloud Bursting 1 Not under consideration

GPU report works with exclusive jobs

To use the GPU accounting, our users have to submit exclusive GPU jobs. We would like our users to submit both exclusive and non-exclusive jobs. Since GPU accounting is important to us, we have to configure our queues to make all submitted GPU job...
over 4 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.
about 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Reporting/Explorer 1 Not under consideration

bhosts command (add. job info request)

Customer understands bhosts and is using it well.And bhosts is definitely a good command for resource monitoring.However, it would be nice to show more job information submitted. For example,If you use the bhosts command, you can check the job's s...
over 4 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration