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Spectrum LSF

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Cleanup user details with bqueues -lr output if they don't have running/done jobs in system

Currently, we can find thousands of entries for all users even though they have ZERO STARTED jobs as listed in bqueues -lr output. For some of larger farms, these entries are close to 7M records and bqueues -lr takes long time to return the data. ...
over 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 2 Planned for future release

Use all applicable NUMA Memory information on a machine to determine available Memory resources before dispatching a job to a machine

We were noticing that jobs were being terminated by LSF with the message: TERM_MEMLIMIT: job killed after reaching LSF memory usage limit.Exited with exit code 137. Yet, this was happening before the job had even consumed the amount of memory rese...
over 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 0 Planned for future release

Add field to bhosts -o

In the latest LSF version, bhosts -o does not have a field to show Reserved resources value. Could you please add a field for memory reserved column in bhosts -o? We can check Reserved Memory in bhosts -l, but it would be helpful if we coul...
over 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 0 Planned for future release

LSF Default Memory UNIT display issue in bacct command

In our production cluster LSF_UNIT_FOR_LIMITS=MBis defined.When we are fetching bacct information then we can see below: Accounting information about this job:Share group charged </jayaward>CPU_T WAIT TURNAROUND STATUS HOG_FACTOR MEM SWAP300...
over 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Operations/RTM 0 Planned for future release

Enable filter option for Name column in Paltform Application Center

Need a filter on Name column in PAC GUI. User want to apply name filter to see the jobs among listed (1000) jobs in single a page.
over 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / End User UI/Applicaton Center 0 Planned for future release

Need lsmake which is supprts Gmake v4.2.1 or later

Current lsmake4 version supports GNU Make 4.0Customer environment uses Gmake v4.2.1 . We need lsmake4 to support Gmake v4.2.1 to enable make through LSF.
about 4 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Other 0 Planned for future release

Ability to specify cores or exclusive host for Benchmark job

Currently all benchmark jobs submitted via RTM use 1 core. Also, one cannot specify node to be exclusively used via bsub -x. This allows other jobs to land on same node and thus tainting benchmark numbers
over 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Operations/RTM 0 Planned for future release