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Spectrum LSF

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License Scheduler licence allocation when jobs need multiple licences

LS assigns licences to the licence project with the lowest accumulated usage, however if the job queuing needs more than the number of licences available they won't be reassigned to another licence project with a job queuing that can use them.
over 8 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Not under consideration

bsub should use pipes for standard file descriptors

Details are in the referenced PMR, but the summary is that since bsub uses sockets instead of files for STDIN, STDOUT, and STDERR certain types of submissions that access /dev/stdin, /dev/stdout, and /dev/stderr will fail to execute properly when ...
over 8 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Not under consideration

Adding number of jobs information in By Queue

in RTM, we can use Grid-By Queue and check the information in there.One of column in there, we can find 'Run Slots'.The information in this column means the number of slot that jobs are using in LSF. I don't know how another oversea customers are ...
over 8 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Not under consideration

Move Jobs from one Execution cluster to another by means of forwarding queue

IBM gave workaround for moving jobs from one exec queue to another by means of a forwarding queue.
over 8 years ago in Spectrum LSF 3 Not under consideration

RTM: Need to provide 3 day floating window for idle jobs

To setup the Idle job floating window in RTM, it is missing 3 days. The selection proves 1, 2, 4 days only. Need to have 3 days item also
over 8 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Not under consideration

Can bstop release slots in order that other jobs can start on the same host ?

Here is an example. I tried the following case. gnx5561 has been booked by advanced reservation: RSVID TYPE USER NCPUS RSV_HOSTS TIME_WINDOW res0 group res0 3/4 gnx5561:3/4 7/28/18/0-7/30/12/0 I have launched one job reserving 3 cpus (857274). It ...
over 8 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Not under consideration

Update rusage with DYNAMIC=Y/duration

With ENABLE_DYNAMIC_RUSAGE=Y a job's rusage string is modified if it uses more licences than it requested, however if a job uses less licences than requested the rusage string is not modifed when DYNAMIC=Y/duration is set to remove licence reserva...
almost 9 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration

RTM enhancement request

Users want this enhance to RTM..All communication regarding the Job from RTM carry a weblink/hyperlink of the Job
almost 9 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Not under consideration

Consider local slots and exported slots together for Lease Mode

Consider local slots and exported slots together for Lease Mode
almost 9 years ago in Spectrum LSF 3 Not under consideration

LSF/GSLA LOAN policies distribution option

When configuring loan policy to allow other queues (q1, q2,...) to use these resources that are not needed immediately for guarantees, we want those resources to be distributed as follow [q1 xx% , q2 yy% , q3 zz%, ...] . LSF don't support this syn...
almost 9 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration