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Spectrum LSF

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GPU Usage for charge back

Chargeback report in LSF explorer reports usage based on slots that are tied to CPU cores. Deep learning experiments use CPUs and GPUs, we need chargeback to include GPU usage so that the target users/departments can be charged appropriately.
about 3 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Reporting/Explorer 1 Not under consideration

energy usage reporting (EAS) not working on intel x86_64 servers

During the testing of EAS on my Dell/HPE hardwares running Linux/CentOS - I figured out that various features in EAS is not really working on these hardwares and they may be only designed for IBM Hardware like Power Systems. Worked with Support on...
about 3 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration

host power management 'EAS' feature for x86_64 h/w

During the testing of EAS on my Dell/HPE hardwares running Linux/CentOS - I figured out that various features in EAS is not really working on these hardwares and they may be only designed for IBM Hardware like Power Systems. Worked with Support on...
about 3 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration

Horizontal Scroll On/Off Default User Cfg

Horizontal Scroll On/Off Default User CfgREF PMR -- TS004718748 New option to enable/disable Horizontal scroll bar Currently defaults to OFF -- No Scroll barThis differs from our current installed usageInstalling FP11 would BREAK all users and for...
over 3 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Operations/RTM 1 Not under consideration

lsf_current_status index contains very old entries

have 2,146,965,961 documents in the lsf_current_status index, which is all the documents one shard can contain. When I query the data I see records in this index that date back 6 months. I believe their is some issue that requires fixing to as ent...
over 3 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Reporting/Explorer 1 Not under consideration

badmin should not call bhosts, bqueues command

During testing, noted that badmin hclose/qclose, hopen/qopen commands also issues bhosts and bqueues command respectively. bhosts/bqueues query commands should be for end users and LSF binaries should not call this commands like bhosts etc and pul...
over 3 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration

Add write_time timestamp column in Elastic Search for all LSF Explore Indexes

We believe it is vitally important to know when an entry was created in each index. This will tell us if their is delay in data being collected. It will let us know if we query for a full days data on day Y and see data from day X to know if our q...
over 3 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Reporting/Explorer 1 Not under consideration

bmod jobs for per queue, or per user

Currently bmod runs per job so if there are 20000 running jobs, I've to run bmod 20000 times, one for each job. Can bmod have functionality like bkill to update bulk jobs , based on certain criteria like for user, queue, hostgroup etc ?
over 3 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 3 Not under consideration

Transfering free value to another project in LS immediately

< Condition > Let's suppose,- There are two prjects in LS, prj1 and prj2.- There are two license features, lic1 and lic2.- There are two free lic1 and many free lic2 are remained.- Between prj1 and prj2, SHARE mode, 50%:50%.So, for lic1, prj...
almost 4 years ago in Spectrum LSF / License Management 2 Not under consideration

Process Manager Partial migration

Requesting capability to migrate flow definitions and flow history partially
almost 4 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration