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Spectrum LSF

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Show unformatted pending reasons with bjobs -UF

Information for PENDING REASONS remains formatted for the command "bjobs -UF [-p|-p0|-p1|-p2|-p3] <jobid>" which makes it hard for scripts to parse the output. Current output: $: bjobs -UF -p3 <jobid> ... PENDING REASONS: Candidate hos...
over 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Reporting/Explorer 0 Future consideration

Create a User Interace and Process flow for API Key Generation, Approval, Use, and Revocation

We presently are evaluating Application Center's Web Services for job submission and control. However, many of our submission users are robots where the password is not known to user, but rather the users have sudo authority to submit jobs from sp...
over 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / End User UI/Applicaton Center 1 Future consideration

Support Multi-threaded LIM with a Shared Memory Database for Scalability

It would be nice if LSF's LIM used a shared memory database and could accept multiple threads instead of having to constantly fork itself to return client data. The new setting to increase/decrease the LIM connection backlog was informative, but i...
over 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 1 Not under consideration

Add additional Metrics to the grid_clusters_perfmon_status table

From badmin show status add the following missing columns: Latest estimation start: - Next estimation start: - Estimation status: Not started Active estimator PIDs: - Elapsed time: 0:00:00 Number of jobs to estimate: 0 Number of estimated jobs:...
over 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Operations/RTM 1 Not under consideration

LSF does not allow jobs to moved from low to high/medium priority queues if there are limits set on medium/high priority queues

We have a setup as follows 1) High queue limit 3 2) Medium Queue limit 4 3) Low queue no limit and the default queue for usrs to submit jobs 4) Very low queue, will be used to use licenses effectively When a user submits 6 jobs for example in high...
over 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 1 Future consideration

Add Resource Description to Table grid_hosts_resources

We currently have a need to view Shared Resources via their Description. It would be nice if: 1) This data was in the grid_hosts_resources table 2) There was a searchable description column under the Shared Resources Report view in RTM
over 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Operations/RTM 1 Not under consideration

Have launchTemplateId/Instance template for LSF Google Resource Connector work the same as if launching from Google cli/portal

Google LSF Resource Connector has the option to launch VMs based off Instance Template feature of GCP thru the launchTemplateId field in googleprov_templates.json. There is additional flexibility in being able to override settings defined in the I...
over 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Cloud Bursting 0 Future consideration

Enable more dynamic tags in LSF resource connector

Currently in Resource connector only one dynamic tag called "RC_ACCOUNT" is enabled but we would like to have more such dynamic tags which can be used along with bsub command.Example;Current tag takes only " -P project_name" as a dynamic tag . But...
over 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Cloud Bursting 1 Not under consideration

json format of lsb.acct log file

It will help with using Splunk for searching and analysis usage of HPC.
almost 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Reporting/Explorer 1 Not under consideration

allow update for span string after a job is started

Hello, currently, it's not possible to update the span string after a job is started. for ex: a user start a multinodes jobs using bsub .... -n x -R ".. span[ptile=y]" ... unfortunately, he forgot to specify to the tool to start in mutlinodes an...
almost 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 1 Not under consideration