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Spectrum LSF

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Enlarge the MAX_CONCURRENT_JOB_QUERY limit

The current MAX_CONCURRENT_QUERY parameter in LSF is only tuneable in the range of 1-100, or unlimited. As our large environment has many users submitting a lot of LSF query commands, users easily hit the 100 limit and getting retry. Since if this...
over 7 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Delivered

Removing BSUB -P character limit

In LSF job submission when using the -P flag the project name character length is set to a maximum of 59 characters. The character limit can be easily reach to that. The reason for this RFE is to remove this character limit length limitation.
over 7 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Delivered

IBM Spectrum LSF Manageable-Resources: SMT Mode + GPU Compte Mode

IBM Spectrum LSF has a view on several types of resources representing the configuration of the managed Compute Nodes. For instance, LSF has a view on : - The total number of CPUs available on nodes. - The number of GPUs available on nodes, as wel...
over 7 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Delivered

Change in PA9-Flexnet Manager bridge - LM_PROJECT variable

Hello, As part of PA9-FNM reporting solution recommendation from IBM it is required to setup a Job starter and esub in LSF cluster under PA9 monitoring. This job starter and esub will make sure to replace the LM_PROJECT variable as ",,,,. As per m...
over 7 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Delivered

hierarchy structure for job application field

I'd like to have hierarchy structure for job application field. For example, Let's suppose we have some application named verilog. This application is linked to circuit and verilogies. And I'd like to check verilog as hierarchy structure. It mean ...
over 7 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Delivered

specify a unit for mem limit

I have some request for option -M of busb. By default, the limit is specified in KB.And I can use LSF_UNIT_FOR_LIMITS in lsf.conf to specify a larger unit for the limit (MB, GB, TB, PB, or EB). Aside from this, I'd like to specify a unit for the l...
over 7 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Delivered

LSF 10.1 documentation in PDF format

Please can docmentation in PDF format be provided for LSF 10.1. With LSF 10.1 documentation in PDF format is no longer available so the online documentation has to be used, the justification being that it is "updated and regenerated regularly". I ...
over 7 years ago in Spectrum LSF 3 Delivered

To enable PA9.1.2 to use oracle as FNM database

We are planning to enable FNM with PA9 and would like to use oracle as FNM database. We understand that currently PA9 support only MS SQL as FNM database however we are planning to implement oracle as FNM database due to following reasons : 1. ST ...
over 7 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Delivered

emailed job report needs timestamps

The job report should have an option to have timestamps for submit time, dispatch time, and end time. Even better would be a way to specify the format (e.g., seconds from epoch, formatted string, etc)
over 7 years ago in Spectrum LSF 3 Delivered

enlarge LSF -u email address from 63 characters

Currently, only two fully qualified emails or IDs for total of 63 bytes can be specified to receive job notification via PPM. Would like to request that value of 63 be configurable parameter that can allow more than 2 fully qualified email addresses
over 7 years ago in Spectrum LSF 5 Delivered