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Spectrum LSF

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Can bstop release slots in order that other jobs can start on the same host ?

Here is an example. I tried the following case. gnx5561 has been booked by advanced reservation: RSVID TYPE USER NCPUS RSV_HOSTS TIME_WINDOW res0 group res0 3/4 gnx5561:3/4 7/28/18/0-7/30/12/0 I have launched one job reserving 3 cpus (857274). It ...
about 9 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Not under consideration

$TMPDIR not retained in post_exec

$TMPDIR not reatained in post_exec of jobs when LSB_SET_TMPDIR is set to TMPDIR in lsf.conf.
about 6 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration

Support Process Reeping Plugin

Support a daemon, that when enabled, will remove interactive logins from the host for users who do not have workload on those systems. This can presently be done through an ELIM, but it would be nice if it were in the core of our process monitorin...
over 6 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration

RTM: add grid cache directory purge feature

currently, the directory use for job graphs (specified in the "Console->Grid Settings->Paths->Grid Cache Dir" field) is never clean up. can you please add feature to purge this directory to avoid disk space saturation ?
over 9 years ago in Spectrum LSF 3 Not under consideration

LSF: unable to update host resources using bconf

Hello, 1st: not possible to update host resources using bconf although that it is documented in the man pages & bconf help. see ex1 "in use case example" 2nd: another way should be to have an extra sub command to add or remove a specific resou...
over 9 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Not under consideration

LSF License Scheduler to support FlexNet Manager

License Scheduler parses the output of lmstat to "know" the relationship between job and license. The limitation is that lmstat doesn't provide sufficient information and it has chance that LS cannot accurately knows that which job is holding whic...
over 6 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration

LSF: bhosts (-w,-l) status when host is closed_Adm and unavail or unreach

bhosts -l HOST ...STATUS CPUF JL/U MAX NJOBS RUN SSUSP USUSP RSV DISPATCH_WINDOWunavail 1.00 - 3 0 0 0 0 0 - LOAD THRESHOLD USED FOR SCHEDULING: .... ADMIN ACTION COMMENT: "HDD or RAID ctlr issue"badmin hhist Mon Dec 29 08:17:06: Host closed by ad...
over 9 years ago in Spectrum LSF 3 Not under consideration

lsdmin trigger a parallel restart when host is removed from lsf.c<cluster>file

lsadmin reconfig after a host is removed from lsf. triggers a mbatchd reconfig which is causing a disruption in job submission as this is a not a parallel restart . This request is to change this behavior to a parallel restart rather than normal r...
over 6 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration

LSF select section of bsub can support regular express.

LSF select section of bsub can support regular express. For example, bsub -R "select[ostype='RHEL*']" -Is csh
over 6 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration

Cgroups CPU subsystem support

We want to ensure that jobs get the CPU time according to the amount of slots requested, especially on nodes shared by multiple jobs. This has always been an important goal in HPC environments. To achieve this we can use affinity, however CPU affi...
almost 10 years ago in Spectrum LSF 4 Not under consideration