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Spectrum LSF

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For more accurate pend time

Product: IBM Spectrum Computing AnalyticsVersion: 9.1.4Actor: SKhynix, Korea HQ Customer want to know how many server's slot was not used and application license was pended and what user could not run own jobs in how long time. To find some inform...
about 7 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration

Add LM-X licManager to LicSched

We would like the LicenseManager LM-X from Altair being montiored by LS in addition to flexlm and rlm. We are using the elim approach for LM-X still while all flexlm and rlm servers are monitored by LS already.
over 4 years ago in Spectrum LSF 0 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
over 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Operations/RTM 1 Not under consideration

CPU usage graph for a job in RTM

First, RTM version is 10.2. Currently, RTM provides just two CPU graphs for a job, one is CPU Time For Job and the other is CPU Time Variation for Job. but that two graphs is related with the time which a job used how much time. But customer want ...
over 4 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Operations/RTM 2 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...
over 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Cloud Bursting 0 Future consideration

Huge *.out files is getting created in /tmp issue

Sometimes LSF job STDOUT files, such as $JOB_SPOOL_DIR/..out grow to enormous sizes and fill up the filesystem. Neither Linux nor LSF provides a mechanism to limit the size of those specific files without also limiting all other files on the files...
almost 5 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration

LSF to preempt tasks in a running parallel job that use borrowed resources to allow PEND jobs with guarantees to go running

We hare 3 queues.All queues have same priority.Each queue has a GRP SLA (guarantee).All queues are setup such that each queue loans out it guarantees to the other 2 queues when not used. In customer environment is often the case that 1 queue goes ...
over 9 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Not under consideration

LSF should support mapping resources to host group(s)

We need to map 200 dynamic gpu resources to all 120 gpu nodes due to gpu auto config is not supported in RHEL6. In the current latest LSF 10.1.0.9, we have to add 120 host names to each of 200 resources. This makes lsf.cluster file very messy. And...
almost 5 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 0 Not under consideration

Change the name of "libevent.so".

We have "libevent.so" for our application. LSF "libevent.so" conflict with it and we have to set library path for ours in job scripts. "libevent.so" is too common name, so please change it in LSF, like "liblsfevent.so".
about 7 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...
over 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Cloud Bursting 1 Not under consideration