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Spectrum LSF

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API option to omit host/slot arrays from jobInfoEnt

The jobInfoEnt structure contains several string arrays that have per-slot hostnames. For large jobs, this takes quite a bit of space. For programs that simply want to summarize jobs in the queue, this information is superfluous. Please provide an...
about 7 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration

API option to omit command from jobInfoEnt.submit

Some users submit jobs using very long scripts. It appears that these scripts are returned in the 'submit' structure of jobInfoEnt. When simply constructing a summary of batch jobs, this superfluous information can become quite large, potentially ...
about 7 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration

API to retrieve hostgroup summary

The LSF API has several functions that return load and status about hosts, but they all return far more data than necessary. I would like to see a function that, given a hostgroup or list of hostnames, returns only:int howManyTotalint howManyOkint...
about 7 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration

retry for lsrcp

Hello, If a NFs temporary issue occurs during lsrcp, lsrcp is immediately switching to LSF_REMOTE_COPY_CMD which by default is rcp. In our cluster, rcp is failing. Could you implement a retry when NFS is KO ? Thanks you
about 7 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration

Add case insensitive option for [license] project name for bacct command

Different users can specify the same project differently with different capitalization schema. Listing all of them with -P or -Lp option requires knowing all permutations before issuing bacct command.
about 7 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Not under consideration

enhance jobstarter argument handling

LSF has a job starter feature that allows for programs to execute just prior to the start of a job. This feature is often used to wrap the execution side of one's job. The arguments to the job are passed to a shell script as part of this execution...
about 7 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration

RTM Database - Selective Data storage based up ClusterID

In RTM I have several clusters. They are identified by ClusterID numbers. There is a ClusterID which is Test or LAB cluster. I use that cluster to test LSF configurations. I run several 1000 jobs. As a result in current configuration the Job start...
about 7 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration

Increase MAX_JOBID in PE environment - 4194303 too low

When using PE in LSF the maximum job ID is 4194303.We have already cycled through the range in 12 months and we'll likely do it twice this year.Having jobs with duplicate IDs causes a lot of problems with things like job accounting.
about 7 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration

Preempt real memory usage reported by a preemptable job

Memory preemption only works with the reserved memory (rusage[mem=X]) by the preemptable job. However, if the preemptable job uses more memory than the reserved, it may happen that a LSF thinks a preemptive job does not fit on the node because of ...
about 7 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration

IBM Spectrum LSF Standard Edition does not support multi NIC VM provisioning

IBM Spectrum LSF standard Edition does not support multi NIC VM provisioning using resource connector.
over 7 years ago in Spectrum LSF 3 Not under consideration