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Spectrum LSF

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LSF Session scheduler support on linux-aarch64

We are using LSF 10.1 session scheduler on our linux-x86_64 compute nodes, and wish to also use the session scheduler on our linux-aarch64 nodes, but it seems to not be available yet ? Can we please request the session scheduler is ported to the l...
over 7 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration

job dependency on requeable job.

Hi, We are working on a workflow enhancement but are facing a potential issue with how LSF handles job dependencies of requeable jobs. Here is the scenario: - there is JOBARRAY[1-10] - there is "sync" job (single) which is dependent on ended(JOBAR...
over 7 years ago in Spectrum LSF 3 Not under consideration

lsfd.service fails to start if not using automount

lsfd.service fails to start if not using automount. In our case, we have a LSF installed in a NFS location which is statically mounted to /r. In order to have lsfd.service start on systemd based operating systems, we need to modify the service to ...
over 7 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration

Stop over allocating of Licenses when usage reaching above defined threshold in License Scheduler

When licenses are free and there is no demand from some of the projects, license scheduler keep allocating the licenses to other projects even they are using more then their defined share. Subsequently license usage goes up to 100% and projects wh...
over 7 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration

Enhancements for "hostsetup"

hostsetup script should be enhanced in the following ways:1) Naming of the startup scripts for SysV init and systemd should be consistent.2) Script should provide option for installing /etc/lsf.sudoers.3) Script should detect /etc/sudoers is prese...
over 7 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration

Add 32-bit (x86) OS support to LSF 10

I would like to ask for 32-bit (x86) Linux operating system support added to LSF 10.1 and beyond.
over 7 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration

Support for TurboVNC in opening remote applications through VNC sessions

At the moment only RealVNC and TightVNC is supported on the client side for connection to applications running on the PAC main host. The server can be TurboVNC, but that's something generic, not PAC specific. Ideally we would need support for Turb...
almost 8 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Not under consideration

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...
almost 8 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 ...
almost 8 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...
almost 8 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration