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Spectrum LSF

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Remove string length restrictions on resource requirement string to bsub

Our job submissions use quite complicated compound resource requirements. As our clusters increase in complexity we find our resource requirement strings used to bsub are becoming too long for the LSF limitation of 511 characters.
about 9 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Delivered

LSF option -b generates abusive LS tokens reservation

When jobs requesting a resource managed by LS and waiting for start-date (-b). LS reserve by default tokens for the pending for Start-date jobs. The consequence is increasing of dispatch time for jobs belonging to the same License project on diffe...
about 9 years ago in Spectrum LSF 3 Delivered

Different signal(s) requested for job termination when the new Smart Cpu enforcement function terminates a job

The new Smart Cpu function (LSB_CPU_USAGE_ENF_CONTROL) in LSF issues a SIGXCPU to terminate jobs in violation of their cpu reservations. Instead we request LSF issue a soft kill followed by a hard kill. Something similar to SIGTERM followed by SIG...
about 9 years ago in Spectrum LSF 3 Delivered

multiple tableau server for high availability

In Platform Analytics 9.1.2, customer want to configure a Tableau Server system for high availability.And this is available on Tableau.But I heard that PA does not support multiple Tableau servers officially now.
about 9 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Delivered

LSF needs to provide default runlimit to RTM

RTM requires the runlimit of jobs to enable a feature to send warning emails to users prior to the job's end time. If a user does not use the -W flag when submitting a job, but instead relies on the default runlimit set by the queue, the informati...
about 9 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Delivered

Add memLimit in jobFinishLog

We use log files for user accounting which needs run time memory limit (memLimit in rLimits). But the field memLimit is not available in jobFinishLog (in lsb.acct). This makes it difficult to merge the memLimit fields with other data in lsb.acct. ...
about 9 years ago in Spectrum LSF 3 Delivered

Making to be able to check the number of jobs for multi thread job in By-Queue report

In RTM, most of queue information is represented with number of job slot.This is not matter, if the job uses single slot is used. But, these days, becuase multi thread jobs are increased, admin want to check total number of jobs for RUN & PEND...
about 9 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Delivered

Issue with data purging : Wastage of vertica license

As discussed in the PMR, due to bad design of data purging in PA 9, there are two issues 1. Wastage of vertica license i.e. at times data is retained in the DB even beyond data retention period defined in SYS_tables_to_parition. 2. PA admin has no...
about 9 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Delivered

Remove the popup dialog for downloading files

In the spooler contents list page, when clicking on the 'Download' button PAC should initiate the download procedure immediately. Having a separate popup box for this feature is simply pointless.
about 9 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Delivered

Scrolling within the spooler section and File Selection Header should always show (RFC 4646). Format error msg for SDK

Make details and headers for the bottom half of the page in spooler contents page static.
about 9 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Delivered