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Spectrum LSF

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About bjobs in different clusters

Suppose there are two clusters. These two clusters are being used by one business division. However, users who submit jobs are not aware of the cluster. They don't know what cluster they're using and they don't know that they need sourcing fo...
about 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 0 Future consideration

Dynamic priority based on jobarray length

We exclusively work with jobarrays at our company. We have a queue reserved for jobs that take no more than 3 minutes. A general rule of thumb is that small jobarrays at our company can be considered as interactive jobs where the user waits for th...
about 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 0 Not under consideration

Create a User Interace and Process flow for API Key Generation, Approval, Use, and Revocation

We presently are evaluating Application Center's Web Services for job submission and control. However, many of our submission users are robots where the password is not known to user, but rather the users have sudo authority to submit jobs from sp...
over 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / End User UI/Applicaton Center 1 Future consideration

Support Multi-threaded LIM with a Shared Memory Database for Scalability

It would be nice if LSF's LIM used a shared memory database and could accept multiple threads instead of having to constantly fork itself to return client data. The new setting to increase/decrease the LIM connection backlog was informative, but i...
over 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 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

Add additional Metrics to the grid_clusters_perfmon_status table

From badmin show status add the following missing columns: Latest estimation start: - Next estimation start: - Estimation status: Not started Active estimator PIDs: - Elapsed time: 0:00:00 Number of jobs to estimate: 0 Number of estimated jobs:...
over 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Operations/RTM 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

LSF does not allow jobs to moved from low to high/medium priority queues if there are limits set on medium/high priority queues

We have a setup as follows 1) High queue limit 3 2) Medium Queue limit 4 3) Low queue no limit and the default queue for usrs to submit jobs 4) Very low queue, will be used to use licenses effectively When a user submits 6 jobs for example in high...
over 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 1 Future consideration

show license conflict for jobs

In the job view, license usage tab, show conflicting jobs for current usage, not only for historic usage. add the 'Conflicts' column and also, if possible, the 'Conflicting Jobs' column.
over 4 years ago in Spectrum LSF / License Management 0 Not under consideration

Adding 'PENDED' column in output of bqueues -l command.

There is the SHARE_INFO section in output of bqueues -l command. In the output, there is STARTED column. it mean started number of slots for user and user group. But, there is no PENDED column. Surely, we can know number of pend slot by using 'bqu...
about 7 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration