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Spectrum LSF

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Add Benchmark Job Name as Job's actual name

The RTM benchmark tool is useful in that it allows us to health and performance check our queues. However, when you look at the Details list of jobs, you can not tell which job is which benchmark. If the jobs name were the Benchmark Job's Name, th...
over 6 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Delivered

Allow Programmatic Job Submission and Query in JSON

LSF should support the ability to submit jobs using json syntax. It should also support a query syntax using json. The response to both job submission and job queries in json should always be in json as well.
over 6 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Delivered

Allow the -cwd path to be accessible to the job

Enable jobs to access the path specified by the bsub -cwd option. Currently if the job pre-exec or the job command create the -cwd path the job cannot change to the -cwd path. PMR 65697,227,000 Apparently by default the bsub -cwd option cannot acc...
over 6 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Delivered

Need individual administrator for each GuaranteedResourcePool

Dear supports,We really want to setup individual administrator for each GuaranteedResourcePool in lsb.resources file. Such GuaranteedResourcePool administrator can only manage the corresponding resource pool by running 'bconf' command. For example...
over 6 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Delivered

Increase LSF Array 255 characters limit

When I pass the index with these entries it is not working[rtemanni@ngslogin1 MyProject_20171220_215520]$ bsub < ../run_cgaso_20171220_6242_rerun620.sh Bad job name. Job not submitted.I submit the job with bsub < ../run_cgaso_20171220_6242_r...
over 6 years ago in Spectrum LSF 0 Delivered

Is License Scheduler able to provide a recommended license server to user job?

Is License Scheduler able to provide a recommended license server to user job? We defined two license features in License Scheduler with same feature name. One of them is used for a specified cluster so LOCAL_TO is set for it. But we found that so...
over 6 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Delivered

PAM module for LSF with ability to login to only job nodes

Implement a PAM module similar to pam_slurm_adopt that allows a user to login only to nodes that are actively running a job for that particular user id. The feature can be enabled or disabled on need basis.If a node is not running user's job, the ...
almost 7 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Delivered

Define a variable to get memory reservation in esub script

Hello, In our esub, we have to get the memory reserved by the user to add some specific features. In order to get this value, we have to extract this value from RES_REQ using this command:RES_MEM=`echo "${LSB_SUB_RES_REQ}" | sed -n -e "s/.*rusage ...
almost 7 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Delivered

bconf very slow

we use bconf add host, but the response time is a little bit slow.
almost 7 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Delivered

Prevents preemption by LS

I have a request about preemption in License Scheduler. I would like to have a parameter that fundamentally prevents preemption by LS. Because, you know, setting NON_SHAREDs will set it up with Ownership.I understand the reason enough. For custome...
almost 7 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Delivered