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Spectrum LSF

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change in the way graceful exits are handled/reported

When LSF sends kill signal to job, based on the time job takes to complete, it sometimes return "0" exit code and sometimes non-zero. This leads to diff message being return by LSF commands. In this RFE I would like to address ::1. What exit code ...
almost 6 years ago in Spectrum LSF 3 Not under consideration

Can LSF support windows docker?

We need LSF support windows docker like support linux docker, to address my company all windows production line have different windows development environment, than IT team need maintain too many windows physical server or VM. so, we wish LSF can ...
almost 3 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Simulation & Prediction 1 Not under consideration

cleanup of Old LOAD_INDEX records from lsb.events

The investigation indicates that LOAD_INDEX record is written to lsb.events when there is change (addition/deletion) in load indices. The records are not automatically cleaned and have no impact to performance unless there are a quite a lot of the...
almost 6 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration

LSF / Extend "span[hosts=xx]" capability to several hosts to optimize cpu utilization in exclusive context

There is no way today to optimize CPU utilization over several hosts, i.e. to specify on how many servers the job should be dispatched, and let LSF use all available cpu on these hosts. This works fine with 1 single host, using cpu range and "span...
almost 9 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Not under consideration

LSF 10.06 can not supoort GPU autoconfig function on HUAWEI server

LSF 10.06 can not support GPU autoconfig function on HUAWEI server.
almost 6 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration

Show complete names and pathes of error and output files in the LSF RTM grid console

RTM truncates the names/pathes of error and output files in the grid console which makes the filenames for long pathes unreadable and potentially indistinguishable, i.e. unusable.
almost 6 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration

Support btop with a job name.

We need a feature to btop a job name to put all the jobs with the specified job name to the top of the queue.
almost 6 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration

Allow Mass Changes of Both License Services and Clusters

In Cacti at page Console > Management > Devices, you have a dropdown option to "Change Settings". From here, you can select multiple devices, and then change select settings. It would be nice to be able to make these same changes for RTM obj...
almost 3 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Operations/RTM 1 Not under consideration

RTM: limits monitoring

We identified the needs of user limits monitoring, the blimits -w output accounting & per user|host|queue|hostgroup related graphs.
almost 9 years ago in Spectrum LSF 3 Not under consideration

Add Tooltips for Various LSF Attributes

Today, on many Cacti pages, table headers include tooltips that explain the dimensions that are displayed in the table. It would be nice to have that for the 13 standard load indexes in LSF, and be able to pull the description from lsf.shared for ...
almost 3 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Operations/RTM 1 Not under consideration