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Spectrum LSF

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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

JOB_CONTROLS (attached to queue) only send scripted command to 1st node in job

When you add customer job control scripts to an application profile - those job controls are only sent to the 0th process in a parallel job (run using blaunch).
almost 9 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration

LSF to preempt tasks in a running parallel job that use borrowed resources to allow PEND jobs with guarantees to go running

We hare 3 queues.All queues have same priority.Each queue has a GRP SLA (guarantee).All queues are setup such that each queue loans out it guarantees to the other 2 queues when not used. In customer environment is often the case that 1 queue goes ...
almost 9 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Not under consideration

RTM: Have automation run serially per cluster and license device

to avoid devices update conflict and server perf degradation, serialize license services and LSF clusters update (mainly when update frequency is set to a day). should by linked with RFE 72419.
almost 9 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Not under consideration

RTM: Add automation option to perform license & cluster devices automation after maintenance

when "Add Graph Frequency" of LSF clusters or License services are set to a day, is it possible to schedule the add graph process (devices update) at the end of the maintenance window. should be linked to RFE 72420
almost 9 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Not under consideration

PAC integration with IBM license scheduler

If you turn on #ENABLE_LS_GUI=YIt will show license data in PAC. This is good. You should be able to integrate that data into a template as a field.
almost 9 years ago in Spectrum LSF 3 Not under consideration

LIcence reservation in LSF License Scheduler

Parallel ECLIPSE simulations need one parallel licence per slot and we'd like the ability to reserve licences in the same way that slots can be reserved. eg: SLOT_RESERVE = MAX_RESERVE_TIME[180]
almost 9 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Not under consideration

Enabling postgres access in Tableau desktop

Hi, With reference to the below attached email conversation, we need to enable postgres access through tableau desktopor platform analytics designer provided with Platform Analytics Package, From: Di VK Wu/China/IBMTo: Madhu-sudan KAPOOR Cc: Gui H...
almost 9 years ago in Spectrum LSF 3 Not under consideration

LSF License Scheduler failover

The master bld should correctly fail over to a slave bld in the event of a storage outage causing the master bld to fail. Mbatchd running on other clusters is able to recognise that the master bld has failed and to start using it's local bld.db, s...
about 9 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Not under consideration

Use Cgroups to keep track of job's associated PIDs

There is a race condition where a new process could take the place of a just-ended process that was part of a job. LSF does not check if the PID XXX is the initial process or it is a new one. Furthermore, when this situation happens, it does not m...
about 9 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Not under consideration