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Spectrum LSF

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User customized - paths / shortcuts

Provide a way to add customized filepath shortcuts in the Copy To/From functions for spooler operations. The best way to do that would be to allow the user to specify these options for their own convenience, so that every user can have their own p...
over 8 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Delivered

Can't search for strings in file when using Open/Tail for spooler files

Performing a simple browser search for the file contents doesn't give the expected results. If the string is not on the current display (or anywhere near -+10 lines), then the browser is unable to find it. The users open a file through the spooler...
over 8 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Delivered

LSF LIM needs better support for Intel Xeon-Phi based compute systems

LSF lim uses up far more computation time on a Xeon Phi self-booting system than it does on standard Xeon nodes. Here is an example. After 5 days (update time set to 60s) on the Xeon Phi ekl001 over 300 min have piled up, while the standard Xeon s...
over 8 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Delivered

Verify Virtual IP/IPVS supported by PA 9.1.2

The client is experiencing PA Vertica database crashing issue periodically. Vertica support indicated the crashing was caused by network issues. One of major concerns is that the network workload was unbalanced and Vertica support suggested to set...
over 8 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Delivered

PAC - RFB in SDK pages doesn't select all files from multiple folders

Remote File Browse doesn't select all files from multiple folders. Consider custom SDK page like this one for example:http:///platform/service/pageFactoryAction.action?serviceId=formelements&embed=null# To reproduce: Select two files from a fo...
over 8 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Delivered

Provide multiple file filter in RFB for custom SDK pages within PAC

In PAC 9.1.4.2 the Remote File Browse (RFB) for SDK pages has been improved significantly. We would like to suggest another relevant enhancement that will allow multiple joint file filters when looking for files to select. For example if we could ...
over 8 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Delivered

PAC hangs when job directory has a large number of files

PAC responds slowly when job directory has a large number of files. I would like to have the option to page through results the same as i would for jobs, instead of the application loading up all results for the current directory the job is locate...
almost 9 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Delivered

LSF: RESIZABLE_JOBS parameter at queue & cluster level

Currently, a parameter exist to enable jobs resizing but only usable by setting an application profile, very unusefull to enable for all jobs: we have to add the RESIZABLE_JOBS parameter to all existing application profiles and to create a new "de...
almost 9 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Delivered

Open Remote Job Consoles inoperative after PAC upgrade

Any active Remote Job Consoles are not accessible after a PAC upgrade. We know how to clear the issue with closing the console via PAC and removing the users related information in the /pac/gui/work and /pac/gui/work.vnc directories and killing al...
almost 9 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Delivered

LSF Reservations by Host count

Please allow users to request a host count for a reservation. This would be a certain number of hosts out of a existing LSF node group or nodes assigned to a certain queue. This will avoid the issue where a reservation fails due to a node failure ...
almost 9 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Delivered