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Spectrum LSF

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LSF Session scheduler support on linux-aarch64

We are using LSF 10.1 session scheduler on our linux-x86_64 compute nodes, and wish to also use the session scheduler on our linux-aarch64 nodes, but it seems to not be available yet ? Can we please request the session scheduler is ported to the l...
almost 7 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration

LSF can not manage Redhat7.2 gnome-terminal job

In IBM's PMR#32285,999,760, we reported LSF can not manage Redhat7.2 gnome-terminal job.After IBM LSF support's investigation, it turns out in Redhar7.2, multiple gnome-terminal jobs share one gnome-terminal-server. To cope with this situation, a ...
almost 7 years ago in Spectrum LSF 3 Not under consideration

job dependency on requeable job.

Hi, We are working on a workflow enhancement but are facing a potential issue with how LSF handles job dependencies of requeable jobs. Here is the scenario: - there is JOBARRAY[1-10] - there is "sync" job (single) which is dependent on ended(JOBAR...
almost 7 years ago in Spectrum LSF 3 Not under consideration

Collect I/O per LSF job as a resource to be reported to RTM

As number of CPUs per machine rises, the I/O to disk rises proportionally, but the bandwidth to the disk generally does not scale. We have found that in high-cpu machines, the system can grind to a near halt due to overload of the disk I/O. We can...
almost 7 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Not under consideration

lsfd.service fails to start if not using automount

lsfd.service fails to start if not using automount. In our case, we have a LSF installed in a NFS location which is statically mounted to /r. In order to have lsfd.service start on systemd based operating systems, we need to modify the service to ...
about 7 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration

Stop over allocating of Licenses when usage reaching above defined threshold in License Scheduler

When licenses are free and there is no demand from some of the projects, license scheduler keep allocating the licenses to other projects even they are using more then their defined share. Subsequently license usage goes up to 100% and projects wh...
about 7 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration

Enhancements for "hostsetup"

hostsetup script should be enhanced in the following ways:1) Naming of the startup scripts for SysV init and systemd should be consistent.2) Script should provide option for installing /etc/lsf.sudoers.3) Script should detect /etc/sudoers is prese...
about 7 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration

Add 32-bit (x86) OS support to LSF 10

I would like to ask for 32-bit (x86) Linux operating system support added to LSF 10.1 and beyond.
about 7 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration

Flexlm License controls

We would like to add the enhancement for flexlm license command to release a license from the RTM webui From RTM > License tab > Feature Checkouts > from the list of feature we would like to be able to release a license if neededHere is t...
about 7 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration

Support for TurboVNC in opening remote applications through VNC sessions

At the moment only RealVNC and TightVNC is supported on the client side for connection to applications running on the PAC main host. The server can be TurboVNC, but that's something generic, not PAC specific. Ideally we would need support for Turb...
about 7 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Not under consideration