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Spectrum LSF

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Run multiple jobarrays in parallel in a queue when queue has UJOB_LIMIT specified

We currently use LSF to distribute electrical analog design simulations to our cluster. These simulations can be very short (>3 minutes) to very long (<48hrs). We have a queue system with timelimits, which means users can select a queue base...
over 4 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Not under consideration

Use Cgroups to keep track of job's associated PIDs

There is a race condition where a new process could take the place of a just-ended process that was part of a job. LSF does not check if the PID XXX is the initial process or it is a new one. Furthermore, when this situation happens, it does not m...
over 9 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Not under consideration

Job status in lsf_jobs_active

There is an index in LE, lsf_jobs_acct. When I tried to make chart in LE webGUI with lsf_jobs_active index, we found job status is a little bit strange. Even if job has end_time, its status is "RUN", as like following,"job_status" : "RUN","time_st...
almost 5 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Reporting/Explorer 0 Not under consideration

To be able to assign and monitor specified cluster to specified user in RTM

Hi support There are 3 LSF clusters and they are monitored through RTM.Admin want to assign each cluster to several admin for monitoring.As like, cluster A to user A / cluster B to user B / cluster C to user CAnd each user can monitor for just onl...
over 9 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Not under consideration

The function that is related with decimal point number in LE customization chart.

In LE web GUI, there are some sample charts provided by IBM. Specially, in table chart, we can see decimal point number as like "xx.yy". But, If we tried to make customization chart and express some value as like run_time, its value is so long dec...
almost 5 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Reporting/Explorer 0 Not under consideration

Additional values in RPT_JOBMART_RAW?table (Vertica) for RANK_MEM, RANK_MEM_REQ

System: Platform AnalyticsActor: Administrator trying to do analysis and forecast Administrator analyzing the amount of memory used for each job. Additional values required to do a more accurate forecast. Example: '32 GB to 64 GB', '64 GB to 128 G...
almost 10 years ago in Spectrum LSF 3 Not under consideration

Reservation Information is not collected in PA and RTM

Unable to find any data in either PA9 or RTM that would enable us to generate reports on dynamic reservations. The reservation configuration cannot be generated for better utilization of the available compute. And its history cannot be maintained....
almost 10 years ago in Spectrum LSF 7 Not under consideration

get user license checkouts from RTM graphs

Right now, we can only see current license checkouts in RTM. can we implement a feature in RTM that gives user license checkouts in a specific period of time, 30min from license usage graphs? I think we already have this enabled for host graphs. I...
almost 5 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Not under consideration

Graphing of Application Profile based limits in RTM

Application charts in RTM today do not display application limits. With new version of LSF 10.1.10, the lsb.application will allow putting limits on an application. We would want to track these limits as we are using same set of queues for multipl...
almost 5 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Operations/RTM 1 Not under consideration

Enable RTM to honour usergroup permissions so that a user can control all jobs via RTM that they can via LSF

We have configured many of our usergroups to be their own admin, which means that any member of that usergroup can manage any job submitted by any user via that usergroup. However, in RTM Grid->Job Info ->Details page the user can only contr...
about 10 years ago in Spectrum LSF 3 Not under consideration