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Spectrum LSF

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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 ...
over 8 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Not under consideration

Make PA 9.1.1.1 for Symphony supported by later version Vertica database

The client requested upgrade Vertica database for their PA 9.1.1 for Symphony from 5.1.5 to 7.x
over 8 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Not under consideration

LSF to support CRAY ALPS SWITCH IN/OUT reservation

Preemption behavior in LSF/ALPS is a bit different because of ALPS reservation - only one ALPS reservation can be made over a compute node at a time.In order for any application to run, a session id needs to be associated with the application and ...
over 8 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration

LSF: conflict between RESIZABLE_JOBS and chunking

in our cluster, we set the RESIZABLE_JOBS = Y to all jobs through application profile to enable jobs resizing when job efficiency is low. since that, we are unable to start jobs in chunk mode. we discover that chunk mode and resizable are not comp...
over 8 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Not under consideration

change job status for recalled jobs

In multi-cluster environment while using load balancing between multiple cluster, jobs gets recalled to submission cluster due MAX_RSCHED_TIME. These jobs show as exited jobs from execution cluster. GM tracks metrics for exited jobs monthly and th...
over 8 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration

sp option to bsub should be refined

The -sp option to bsub doesn't simply rank your jobs against your own, but ranks them against all other jobs in the same queue. This is only appropriate in a perfect environment where everyone plays nicely. This also causes problems with FairShare...
over 8 years ago in Spectrum LSF 3 Not under consideration

RTM Display distinct license checkout count

When displaying the license -> daily stats, it would be clearer if the output showed the number of distinct checkout license so that it would not be all summed into one result. Otherwise it is confusing that a user has a check out time of 20 da...
almost 9 years ago in Spectrum LSF 3 Not under consideration

Ability to block/minimize non-lsf hosts contacting Master

Ability to block/minimize non-lsf hosts contacting Master
almost 9 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Not under consideration

PAC displays PSUSP jobs as PEN from LSF

After performing a the "brequeue -a -H jobid" command to requeue a single job, I noticed that PAC shows inconsistent information about this job. The job status is incorrect. Should have been "Suspended" since LSF shows the job status , but instead...
almost 9 years ago in Spectrum LSF 4 Not under consideration

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