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Spectrum LSF

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Add case insensitive option for [license] project name for bacct command

Different users can specify the same project differently with different capitalization schema. Listing all of them with -P or -Lp option requires knowing all permutations before issuing bacct command.
almost 8 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Not under consideration

enhance jobstarter argument handling

LSF has a job starter feature that allows for programs to execute just prior to the start of a job. This feature is often used to wrap the execution side of one's job. The arguments to the job are passed to a shell script as part of this execution...
almost 8 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration

Specify execution hosts per application

To introduce an application level HOSTS parameter in application profile definition in lsb.application configuration file. Similar to HOSTS in queue definition in lsb.queues, this parameter should specify execution hosts (host groups) selection po...
about 8 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Not under consideration

Max SWP in bjobs output

In current bjobs output we do not see max_swp.Similar to max_mem, avg_mem it would be good to have max_swp in the bjobs output.
about 8 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration

Provide priority setting feature for job run order

System: PAC interfaceActor: Power user / admin / platform moderator / administrator PAC is good when it comes to displaying jobs submitted to LSF but it's missing some essential functionality like the ability to prioritize jobs within a queue. Des...
about 8 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration

Test and provide documentation on using Vertica native load balancer for PA 9.1.4

The IPVS load balancer is not supported for Vertica 7.2.3 which is embedded in PA 9.1.4, only the Vertica native load balancer. In some cases we have seen high loads on the Vertica database which has stopped the spread daemon on a node and occasio...
over 8 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Not under consideration

jobs dispatched to hostgroups outside resource pool

jobs submitted using application profile and attached to specific SLA and resource pool getting submitted to a different hostgroup
over 8 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Not under consideration

Add jexport command to PPM 9.1.3

just upgraded to PPM 9.1.3 and need an easier way to manipulate the flows from command line
over 8 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Not under consideration

Lock LSF daemon's memory pages to prevent swapping them out

As part of the discussion about the which NICE value should LSF daemon use, another idea to improve LSF resilience and consistency came up. See the PMR related. LSF daemons should never send pages to swap. When this happens, and a fix pack replaci...
over 8 years ago in Spectrum LSF 3 Not under consideration

Preemption based on concurrent number of slots used by a user

LSF should support a preemption policy that supports a preemption order based on the number of job slots used by each user's jobs. In other words ... when a higher priority job needs to preempt a lower priority job, jobs from users whose jobs use ...
almost 9 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Not under consideration