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Spectrum LSF

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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

Allow the user to save multiple cluster dashboard layouts by name

Right now, the Cluster Dashboard is very monolithic, you every time you go there, you have to set it up the way you like it. Yes, you can save the dashboard, but it would be nice to have multiple saved dashboards so that you can quickly obtain the...
about 3 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Operations/RTM 1 Not under consideration

Allow Tagging of LSF Clusters and Filtering from Dashboard and Managmenet pages

Currently we have a lot of clusters for various functions and purposes. It would be nice to be able to tag clusters by function, production/test/dev, etc and then be able to filter the various pages by tagname. It would help cut down on clutter wh...
about 3 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Operations/RTM 1 Not under consideration

Support or remove user defined dynamic resources from lsb.hosts file

Elim resources are used to present unique resources and values to the scheduler. Dynamic resources are not supported in the LSF simulator and are converted to static resources in the lsf.cluster file and in the lsf.shared file. However these resou...
about 3 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Simulation & Prediction 1 Not under consideration

dynamically change the number of UJOB_LIMIT

I'd like to dynamically change the number of UJOB_LIMIT. For example that my total slots for normal.q is 3024, and my UJOB_LIMIT is set to 1000. If my number of RUN is 2733 so close to my total slots of 3024, is there a way to detect that and chan...
about 6 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration

Two Design Flaws in Run Limit Reporting in RTM

Currently in RTM, there two design gaps in the RunLimit features. They are: 1) No way to exclude queues such as 'short' 2) Emails are sent one at a time, which in our case results in 77k emails sent randomly. It would be better to 'consolidate' Em...
about 3 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Operations/RTM 1 Not under consideration

Can bstop release slots in order that other jobs can start on the same host ?

Here is an example. I tried the following case. gnx5561 has been booked by advanced reservation: RSVID TYPE USER NCPUS RSV_HOSTS TIME_WINDOW res0 group res0 3/4 gnx5561:3/4 7/28/18/0-7/30/12/0 I have launched one job reserving 3 cpus (857274). It ...
over 9 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Not under consideration