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Spectrum LSF

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Track Multiple Reasons for Host Closure in RTM

The next version of LSF (!0.1.10) will be supporting/tracking multiple reasons (stacking closure events) for host closure using event ids. This allows to track various maintenance events open hosts using badmin hopen This request is to enable the ...
almost 5 years ago in Spectrum LSF 0 Delivered

chunking: runtime limit (-W bsub option) & estimated runtime (-We) conflict

when a runtime limit and an estimated runtime are set for a job, only the highest value is considered for chunking. if you want to submit short jobs in chunk and you want to set a runtime limit to kill these jobs when they don't end and this runti...
almost 10 years ago in Spectrum LSF 3 Delivered

Make hostgroups a valid parameter for all commands which also accept hostnames as parameter

Many LSF commands accept a hostname as parameter (bhosts, lshosts, lsload ecc.) to show the results only for the named hosts. Not all of them also accept a hostgroup as parameter (bhosts does, lshosts and lsload don't). To show the results for hos...
almost 5 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 2 Delivered

Make the `badmin` comments visible in tabular outputs

Several `badmin` subcommands allow to specify a comment using the -C option. However this comment cannot be printed in any of the `bhosts`, `bqueues` etc. tabular outputs (-w, -o, ...). The comment is only shown with the -l option, which generates...
almost 5 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Delivered

Improve the robustness of ClearCase/LSF Wrapper

The current implementation of the ClearCase/LSF wrapper is not robust. It does not check for instance if a ClearCase setview passes or fails. At times when a ClearCase view server process is rather busy yhe setview operation might fail and since w...
almost 10 years ago in Spectrum LSF 3 Delivered

Need bhosts show extra information about the LSF host status even the host is returned back to EGO

When a host is in closed_EGO or unreach state, how can the admin know this host has ever been closed by LSF(badmin hclose) before EGO takes back the host or host rejoin after the host removal out of cluster. It's true the admin can check the lsb e...
almost 10 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Delivered

Add/modify GPU affinity options for LSF

The objective is to add to and modify the GPU affinity options that LSF makes available via bsub -gpu, as follows. 1. When a user requests NVIDIA MPS via a LSF bsub -gpu option, the default GPU affinity should be "off", meaning that LSF should set...
about 5 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Delivered

RTM: license server name truncated

A license server name longer 45 char which is truncated when I save it in the lic add form. It seems this is due to the server_name filed of the lic_services table limited to 45 char when name field in many others table (like lic_servers) are limi...
about 10 years ago in Spectrum LSF 3 Delivered

Treat PAC desktop client as a job submission host

The PAC desktop client does not capture the submission host env. None of the client environment variables and CWD are passed to the execution host. We cannot use it to submit jobs.
about 5 years ago in Spectrum LSF 0 Delivered

LSF - Jobs dispatched to hosts with issues.

Jobs Fail on execution hosts due to unknown system issues (EX: stale mount points)BUT LSF continues to dispatch jobs to these “bad” hosts. Can the scheduler hclose hosts that have rejected multiple jobs.
about 10 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Delivered