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Spectrum LSF

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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 8 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 8 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 8 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 8 years ago in Spectrum LSF 5 Delivered

Improve speed of sourcing for LSF environment

There's ways to reduce the time of sourcing for LSF environment. If we use "grep -F" in the cshrc.lsf, it may give some performance gain.Exactly line 181set LIBC_SO=`ldconfig -p | grep libc.so.6 | sed 's/.*=>//'` This may depends on the load of...
over 8 years ago in Spectrum LSF 3 Delivered

lsfrestart command mbatchd parallel reconfig

ARM would like to see lsfrestart script have the option of running the mbatchd restart in parallel mode, possibly with a -p flag.
over 8 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Delivered

Flexlm license reservation Parameter

It's an example of RESERVATION. lmstat -f SIS_CHAR -c xxxx@xxxxxxUsers of SIS_CHAR: (Total of 15 licenses issued; Total of 6 licenses in use) "SIS_CHAR" v2016.03, vendor: snpslmd, expiry: 14-jun-2016 floating license 6 RESERVATIONs for GROUP TESTC...
over 8 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Delivered

[RESEARCH] Authentication - Single Sign On - Active Directory

Provide MS - Active Directory and Kerberos authentication mechanism in PAC to allow seamless integration with company-wide systems. Every modern company uses AD for authentication with the correct roles and groups certain set of users should be al...
over 8 years ago in Spectrum LSF 3 Delivered

lsb_hostinfo

Add additional field to show Total CPU per host and Total CPU in use per host. Currently sees the number of "tasks". Our real issue is we have started using a combination of OpenMP/MPI for some of our users jobs. When running a standard OpenMP or ...
over 8 years ago in Spectrum LSF 3 Delivered

PROJECT_GROUP_PATH in LS

Our customer'd like to use "PROJECT_GROUP_PATH=Y",but it's used for fast dispatch project mode only. In case of customer, they shouldn't use fast dispatch because of duration. Even if we don't use fast dispatch, we want to use "PROJECT_GROUP_PATH=...
over 8 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Delivered