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Spectrum LSF

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Allow Flagging Jobs for Reservation Through Rules and/or Through a "bsub --plan" Option

Today, reservations in LSF are handled by the Top X jobs by ordered by Dynamic Priority using the variable MAX_JOB_RESERVE. We believe that this is a shotgun approach. We have millions of jobs a day that require 1 cores and less than 1GB of memory...
over 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 0 Future consideration

Limit Loans to certain User Groups and/or Project tag patterns in Guarantee Pools

We want to enable more loaning of resources, but the various teams are rather territorial. They would loan to some one in either the same user group tree, and/or the same Project by regular expression. Allow Guarantee Pools to support that loan po...
about 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 1 Future consideration

Ensure that 'bresize' calls ESUB so that we can do policy enforcement, like limit the increase to no more than X tasks or to keep the job from going over Y tasks

Once we re-certify Session Scheduler, we know that the users will 'game the system'.
almost 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 0 Future consideration

Please log the number of bwaits processed per minute in "badmin perfmon view" and the current number of bwait's queued in "badmin show status"

Currently, we can see the number of total bwaits that have gone into the system since we have command debug logging enabled, but we have no easy way to know how many wait's are queued up or what the throughput of bwait commands are. We would use t...
8 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 0 Future consideration

Forward, without local processing, bsub options to remote clusters

In multi-cluster scenarios, there should be no expectation that all the clusters are configured the same and/or support the same resources, slas, architectures, etc. Currently, when launching jobs with -sla, -m, and other options, the local schedu...
8 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Cloud Bursting 1 Future consideration

job resource usage correction

My developers always submit distributed jobs to the cluster, when their jobs ends with OOM error in one of the nodes, bjobs or bacct commands find that the job's memory usage is incorrect. For example , in server's '/var/log/message' we can see th...
8 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Reporting/Explorer 0 Future consideration

enable 'single sign on' website login

useful to avoid end users retyping their password to log on RTM website
9 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Operations/RTM 0 Future consideration

lsfproxyd - Persistent blocking rules

LSFProxyd is a new solution to help scheduler handle queries effectively. This RFE is to enable persistent blocksing rules for heavy query hitters. Same has been discussed with John Welch in a separate discussion.
over 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 1 Future consideration

bjobs -o reserved_mem or bhosts -o reserved_mem

To see how much memory is reserved on a host, we need to parse the bhosts -l <hostname> command, and it doesn't give us info about which job is reserving how much memory. I'd either like to see one of the following: bhosts -o 'jobid reserved...
over 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 1 Future consideration

Allow to set/modify the same option in multiple esubs

Currently a specific option can only be set or modified once through an esub, even if multiple esub's are run. If an option is set a second time, the error message ... Conflict parameter <PARAMETER_NAME> - Ignored. appears. There are at leas...
over 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 1 Future consideration