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Spectrum LSF

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Set more job variables in parent SBATCHD prior to forking the job SBATCHD/RES

I've been working with the Daemons Wrap source code trying to make the logging more presentable, and I've come accross a hurdle to effectively enhancing that integration. I need both the Job Start and Submit Times, and normally, I would just be ab...
almost 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 1 Not under consideration

Track a local directory duing job execution and report utilization details in job rusage

We would like to be able to, at submission time, specify a local directory that we would like to have LSF monitor the total size and files in and report in the Jobs RUSAGE periodically. This directory will be separate from the execCwd or the cwd. ...
almost 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 1 Not under consideration

Why do we have to run "lspasswd" to register windows user's password in LSF ?

Customers hope they don't need to use lspasswd in Windows. But LSF needs user's password to impersonate user before running user's job on a Windows execution host. This is due to the designed feature of user authentication in Windows. Windows need...
about 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 1 Not under consideration

Improve Various Components of the Current Scheduler Adlgorithm

Currently, though the Scheduler supports threads, the processing is not a thread per bucket, but rather a threads that are used on a per bucket basis and buckets are still handled serially, which has led us to Host Match times around 400 seconds. ...
over 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 4 Not under consideration

Can LSF support windows docker?

We need LSF support windows docker like support linux docker, to address my company all windows production line have different windows development environment, than IT team need maintain too many windows physical server or VM. so, we wish LSF can ...
over 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Simulation & Prediction 1 Not under consideration

Allow Mass Changes of Both License Services and Clusters

In Cacti at page Console > Management > Devices, you have a dropdown option to "Change Settings". From here, you can select multiple devices, and then change select settings. It would be nice to be able to make these same changes for RTM obj...
over 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Operations/RTM 1 Not under consideration

Add Tooltips for Various LSF Attributes

Today, on many Cacti pages, table headers include tooltips that explain the dimensions that are displayed in the table. It would be nice to have that for the 13 standard load indexes in LSF, and be able to pull the description from lsf.shared for ...
over 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Operations/RTM 1 Not under consideration

Have LSF track the number of status changes and requeues for a job over time

Basically, right now, there is no way to look at LSF's jobInfo record to know how many times a job has been requeued via either a pre-exec/jobstarter failure, or from a manual requeue. Additionally, there is no way to determine how many times a jo...
over 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 1 Not under consideration

Threshold for over allocation in License Scheduler

Based on the license availability and the demand from certain project(s), LSF License scheduler can allocate more license to a project, then its define share of licenses. If limits are defined, it leads to under utilization and wastage of licenses...
over 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / License Management 3 Not under consideration

Simplify the Removal of a specific select string or rusage from a running or pending job

It would be nice if we simply had the ability to bmod away a reservation without having to reconstruct the entirety of the bsub -R "blah" syntax. I would much prefer to do something like: bmod --remove-reservation mylicense [options] jobid ... V...
over 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration