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Spectrum LSF

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LSB_MC_INITFAIL_RETRY needs to handle the case where license resource (by License Scheduler) request is not satisfied.

As LSB_MC_INITFAIL_RETRY does not handle the case where license token request is not satisfied, job is repeatedly forwarded and recalled while license is not available.As we use WAN licenses shared by multiple clusters, when the license is not ava...
almost 6 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 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
about 6 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration

Restrict application license usage on a per user basis - cross cluster

Provide the ability to configure a per user limit for application licenses. Once a user reaches this limit no additional workload can be executed which would result in additional licenses being consumed. The limit would include licenses consumed b...
about 6 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration

Request Platform Analytics bldloader improvements

Request improvements to the Platform Analytics bldloader data loader so that it captures more of the information that is available on the command line. The License Scheduler documentation includes details on how to set up LS to write to a bld.stre...
about 6 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration

New chart to plot actual usage and total available capacity aggregated by project or queue or user against time.

Actual versus Capacity Client has requested a new chart. This chart would plot actual usage and total available capacity aggregated by project or queue or user against time. The following measures would be available:  • total job run time • total ...
about 6 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration

Hardware Utilisation Chart - Display maximum values in addition to average values

Currently hardware utilisation chart displays average cpu utilisation, average slot utilisation, average memory utilisation and average swap utilisation for all hosts in the cluster against time. All values are displayed as a percentage. Chart typ...
about 6 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration

bhist should be able to parse job ids even if respective JOB_NEW record is rotated

Since the current bhist design requires JOB_NEW record to display a job's information, Opening a Request for Enhancement (RFE) on meaningful message in "bhist -f event_file" output when event_file only contains job records other than JOB_NEW, such...
about 6 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration

Possible to combine multiple license ports in 1 graph?

We currently have 3 licenses servers for our Cadence licensing world-wide. One server in the US on port 5280, one server in Israel also on port 5280 and one server in Singapore also on port 5280. We would like to be able to view all 3 of these ser...
about 6 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Not under consideration

Allow RESOURCE_RESERVE_PER_TASK to be enabled per queue or job

Allow RESOURCE_RESERVE_PER_TASK specified in lsb.params to be enabled per queue, per job or cluster wide (the way it is currently).
about 6 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Not under consideration

RTM access to old licence log files to see usage over time.

Request Functional Enhancement(RFE):
about 6 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration