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Spectrum LSF

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Threshold for over allocation in License Scheduler

Based on the license availability and the demand from certain project(s), LSF License scheduler can allocate more license to a project, then its define share of licenses. If limits are defined, it leads to under utilization and wastage of licenses...
almost 3 years ago in Spectrum LSF / License Management 3 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

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...
over 8 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Not under consideration

Simplify the Removal of a specific select string or rusage from a running or pending job

It would be nice if we simply had the ability to bmod away a reservation without having to reconstruct the entirety of the bsub -R "blah" syntax. I would much prefer to do something like: bmod --remove-reservation mylicense [options] jobid ... V...
almost 3 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

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

Please allow host_group to be used in brun -m

There is -m option in brun command.By using -m option, we can define specified hosts separately. But client want to use host_group in -m option for brun as like bsub.We can use host_group with -m option in bsub.But We can't use it with brun.So cli...
almost 6 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration

Set 2 levels for loadSched

1. By design, if the loadSched condition is not satisfied, no jobs can be dispatched to the host. Even if we submit a job which will not use the lacking resource, the job can't be dispatched to the host, either. 2. We think this is a waste of the ...
almost 9 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Not under consideration

RTM License Accounting by Token Cost, not Monthly Total Cost

The new License Accounting feature could be extremely useful. This concept was presented to us by Larry Adams, Cacti Architect. Currently, you can define an 'application' and a monthly cost for whatever licenses are associated with that applicatio...
about 6 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration