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Spectrum LSF

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Allow 'ssacct' to work without specifying a file path when the session is still running

Currently Session Scheduler's 'ssacct' command works without the -f option only when the Session is finished. LSF knows where the account file is when the job is running, so why can we not see the account output when the session is running?
10 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 0 Delivered

When submitting a job to a CGROUPv2 Compatible System Modify cpu.shares based upon the task count requested by the job

LSF would support CGROUPv2 better, if it adjusted the number of CPU shares for a job based upon the number of cpus/tasks requested by the job.
over 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 3 Delivered

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure OCI support for LSF Resource Connector

IBM Spectrum LSF offers cloud busting opportunity using its Resource Connector component. LSF Resource connector works with various cloud providers, but it has no support for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). As per recent study, OCI has emerged ...
over 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Cloud Bursting 2 Delivered

Email disable for mbatchd and enable for sbatchd

Currently , there is no way to seperately disable mbatchd emails v/s sbatchd emails. Means. We have set email set to N in lsf.conf , so that by default job report emails are not sent. However some users who need email can set in their environment ...
11 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 1 Delivered

Enhance scheduling of shared GPU jobs to pack jobs on to GPUs

Enhance scheduling of shared GPU jobs to pack jobs on to GPUs
over 4 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Delivered

Enable changing default credentials in RBAC-database configuration

When using LSF Explorer with Role Based Access Control (RBAC) it is required to setup an additional database. The default username/password combination is pacuser:pacuser. It is stored as a hashed value under lsfsuite/ext/explorer/server/rbac/data...
almost 3 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Delivered

Extend SessionScheduler being able to manage small parallel application (size up to one node)

Today we have applications/software running in serial mode via session scheduler (runtime per task <<10min) with up to 10000 tasks. These applications/software will migrate to parallel usage soon and we want to keep the SessionScheduler func...
almost 3 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Delivered

Add fields to bhosts -o output

Add total memory and memory reserved columns for bhosts -o option.
almost 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 1 Delivered

Cluster level graph for used/total memory

Customer would like to have a RTM graph for cluster level avg Used/Total memory. Log on behalf of customer. Please contact youfeng.shen@shell.com
almost 3 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Delivered

Set a limit in the MC receive queue

TSMC is using MC to balance work load between clusters. When the submission cluster is busy, it forwards some jobs to execution clusters. The execution cluster has it's own workload except the forwarded jobs. To avoid the forwarded jobs occupy mos...
about 3 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration / Cloud Bursting / Scheduling 1 Delivered