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Spectrum LSF

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LSF: Improve load sync time between host & master scheduler

The current sync time between LSF scheduler running in a master host and another host is high. There is a out of sync time window wherein the load on a host is not in sync with a running job's memory requirements.Requesting to eliminate this out o...
over 4 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Delivered

LSF reservation to capture new nodes

This is likely a feature request, but I am hoping some mechanism might already exist to accomplish this task. When putting an advance reservation in place (typically for maintenance), all nodes are never up in a system the size of Summit. However,...
over 4 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Delivered

Add date range filter for Running job

in RTM, when we search the job by Job status, we can use the data range filter for most of job status.But, if we want to search the Running status for specified date range, we can't use the date range filter. So admin want to use the date range fi...
about 9 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Delivered

List job state stats seperately for jobs in PSUSP for bqueus and bjobs -sum commands.

We have the need to place PENDing jobs into (P)SUSPed when we do not have a license available in our Amazon cluster environment. However, the bqueues output continues to report the suspended jobs slots as PEND and not (P)SUSP. I am currently using...
about 9 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Delivered

job group management improvement

Hello,checking log file of RTM server, we found a recurrent warning triggered by too many job group for one of our LSF cluster. this highlight that we cannot have more than ~7000 job group for a cluster, the impacted cluster having ~30k explicit j...
over 4 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 1 Delivered

LSF - CSM Job Script Failure does not result in requeue

If a single node in a large job experiences and CSMSCRIPT Failure the job will simply complete and not be requeued for another run on a different set of nodes.
over 4 years ago in Spectrum LSF 0 Delivered

register dynamic LSF host ip/name into master LIM for the environment of frequent changing IP address

Hello, As discussed in PMR 73436,650,706], Please can you implement such tool: Description: lsreghost [-h] [-V] [add|delete|view|update][-dynamic|-static] [–IP 1.1.1.1] [–hostname abc.company.com] [–alias abc] Return: the host is added/deleted/upd...
over 9 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Delivered

Add bjobs -UF option to bhist(Address in 114254)

Add bjobs -UF option to bhist so that one can specify NOT to automatically wrap the output lines at 80 columns
over 9 years ago in Spectrum LSF 3 Delivered

long-running daemons and cgroups

Vendor daemons are preventing us from implementing cgroups for process accounting. We would like to implement cgroups for process accounting in our LSFcluster to resolve a long standing issue of processes escaping fromLSF control. We have several ...
over 9 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Delivered

[more info] Split LSF_TMPDIR into 2 different parameters: job's TMPDIR and LSF daemons' working directory

Have 2 different parameters to specify:1) Job's temporary directory TMPDIR2) LSF daemons' working directory where they core dump in case of fail, or sbatchd creates the .XXX.fanout and the .XXX.sbd directories. At the moment, both aspects are affe...
over 9 years ago in Spectrum LSF 6 Delivered