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Spectrum LSF

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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 ...
about 9 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 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 ...
about 3 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Operations/RTM 1 Not under consideration

Have LSF track the number of status changes and requeues for a job over time

Basically, right now, there is no way to look at LSF's jobInfo record to know how many times a job has been requeued via either a pre-exec/jobstarter failure, or from a manual requeue. Additionally, there is no way to determine how many times a jo...
about 3 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 1 Not under consideration

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...
about 3 years ago in Spectrum LSF / License Management 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...
about 6 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 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...
about 3 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 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

Could add custom tab for a flow

In AC we can create custom tab, with "Edit Page" function. The request is to have the same behavior for flow.You can find a screenshot (CustomPage_newTab_Jobs.png) of a Job details, and we can add a custom tab to display more information.For Flow ...
about 6 years ago in Spectrum LSF 0 Not under consideration

Have the possibility to add graph for a flow

Have the possibility to add graph for a flow.AC could add a custom graph to follow a jobs (see screenshot AddGraph_JobsSubmissionForm_ok.png), the request is to have the same behaviour for a flow, in order to follow an indicator of the convergence...
about 6 years ago in Spectrum LSF 0 Not under consideration

blimits -n to select multiple limit name

blimits man pages says that's possible to select multiple limit names but it's not functional. can you please implement this functionality ?
about 6 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 0 Not under consideration