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Spectrum LSF

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License Scheduler fix INUSE license token detection on same-server Jobs

The License Scheduler is unable to correctly identify the INUSE and RESERVE values of requested tokens (e.g. rusage[MYTOKEN=4], when more than one jobs run on the same server by the same user. Possible solution:This could be solved, if the License...
about 4 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Not under consideration

INQUEUE PREEMPTION

Because "Preemption scheduling" is actually for the jobs in different queues. LSF today has no such feature or concept of in-queue preemption. the new feature maybe work like this: define a INQUEUE_PREEMPT=[[userA,80%] [userB,20%]] ... For example...
over 4 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 1 Not under consideration

Job status in lsf_jobs_active

There is an index in LE, lsf_jobs_acct. When I tried to make chart in LE webGUI with lsf_jobs_active index, we found job status is a little bit strange. Even if job has end_time, its status is "RUN", as like following,"job_status" : "RUN","time_st...
over 4 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Reporting/Explorer 0 Not under consideration

The function that is related with decimal point number in LE customization chart.

In LE web GUI, there are some sample charts provided by IBM. Specially, in table chart, we can see decimal point number as like "xx.yy". But, If we tried to make customization chart and express some value as like run_time, its value is so long dec...
over 4 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Reporting/Explorer 0 Not under consideration

License Scheduler ENABLE_DYNAMIC_RUSAGE + FAST_DISPATCH combination

We are troubled by the slow dispatch time of jobs, when the license scheduler is involved. Even after lengthy optimization, the dispatch time remains at 10-25 seconds, which is not good. (note that LMSTAT time and interval is just 3 seconds). If t...
over 4 years ago in Spectrum LSF / License Management 0 Not under consideration

get user license checkouts from RTM graphs

Right now, we can only see current license checkouts in RTM. can we implement a feature in RTM that gives user license checkouts in a specific period of time, 30min from license usage graphs? I think we already have this enabled for host graphs. I...
over 4 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Not under consideration

Max number of nodes for LSF service class

It would be useful to set a minimum value of guaranteed nodes as well as a maximum value in the distribution of an LSF service class
over 4 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration

Graphing of Application Profile based limits in RTM

Application charts in RTM today do not display application limits. With new version of LSF 10.1.10, the lsb.application will allow putting limits on an application. We would want to track these limits as we are using same set of queues for multipl...
over 4 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Operations/RTM 1 Not under consideration

LSF service protection for queries

Before I explain it,this feature request is very important to us because it affects the entire LSF service.If these features are provided, we believe that we can achieve higher safety for our LSF products. Suddenly there was a mbatchd load issue w...
over 4 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration

One mbatchd connect to two blds (License Scheduler)

In our company, each business unit is using its own lsf cluster and license scheduler.We are going to have a company wide license server for a license feature A and every business units will share the license. Is there a way for a LSF cluster to p...
over 4 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration