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brequeue on zombie jobs please

a machine crashed on an on-premise cluster leaving many jobs in a UNKWN state. as described here [https://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg3T1027518] i tried bkill -r twice then brequeue -e, but got the error message "Job has already fini...
over 6 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 1 Not under consideration

Support both JSON, YAML payloads in addition to the current XML payload when using the REST API

We currently have a projects where users will be submitting and controlling workload through Application Center. The customer is asking that they be allowed to continue to use JSON payload instead of XML payload for job submission and control.
about 3 years ago in Spectrum LSF / End User UI/Applicaton Center 0 Future consideration

Improve Job Priority Output to Exceed 1e6 as APS can easily increase Per Job Priority above that value

There is currently a system limitation that Job Priories above 1e6 do not display correctly when using bjobs -o "blah" formatted output. This is currently causing us a monitoring issue when attempting to order jobs with a very high dynamic priorit...
about 3 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 1 Not under consideration

Dynamic priority based on jobarray length

We exclusively work with jobarrays at our company. We have a queue reserved for jobs that take no more than 3 minutes. A general rule of thumb is that small jobarrays at our company can be considered as interactive jobs where the user waits for th...
about 3 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 0 Not under consideration

bhosts -o "non shared dynamic numeric elim resource"

I'd like to see "non shared dynamic numeric elim resource" info from bhosts -o. bhosts -o can only view LSF embedded resources.(as previously defined)"bhosts -o "field_name[:[-][output_width]]" lsload -o could tell us non-shared resource status. B...
over 6 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 0 Not under consideration

Adding forking child to sbatchd can prevent significant delays and cascading problems associated with slow cgroup writes.

Platform LSF's root sbatchd daemon on the execution host gets stuck while writing to one of the cgroup subsystem. This causes the host to show unreachable status, and no new jobs will be dispatched to this host. Jobs which were already running on ...
almost 10 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Not under consideration

Create a User Interace and Process flow for API Key Generation, Approval, Use, and Revocation

We presently are evaluating Application Center's Web Services for job submission and control. However, many of our submission users are robots where the password is not known to user, but rather the users have sudo authority to submit jobs from sp...
over 3 years ago in Spectrum LSF / End User UI/Applicaton Center 1 Not under consideration

Support Multi-threaded LIM with a Shared Memory Database for Scalability

It would be nice if LSF's LIM used a shared memory database and could accept multiple threads instead of having to constantly fork itself to return client data. The new setting to increase/decrease the LIM connection backlog was informative, but i...
over 3 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 1 Not under consideration

Add additional Metrics to the grid_clusters_perfmon_status table

From badmin show status add the following missing columns: Latest estimation start: - Next estimation start: - Estimation status: Not started Active estimator PIDs: - Elapsed time: 0:00:00 Number of jobs to estimate: 0 Number of estimated jobs:...
over 3 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Operations/RTM 1 Not under consideration

Support multiple RDP sessions on windows to support remote 3D application

remote virtualization is becoming more and more important when client is truing to building a HPC cluster. They are intending to put the pre and post simulation work on remote clusters with GPU cards without downloading the files. And also make th...
over 6 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration