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Spectrum LSF

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LSF Resource connector should select template for minimum number of servers

LSF Resource connector selects the template based on the resources and priority defined in the configuration file. This is good approach for a single job. However, when there are multiple jobs (which is the case mostly), this approach is not suita...
over 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Cloud Bursting 2 Delivered

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure OCI support for LSF Resource Connector

IBM Spectrum LSF offers cloud busting opportunity using its Resource Connector component. LSF Resource connector works with various cloud providers, but it has no support for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). As per recent study, OCI has emerged ...
over 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Cloud Bursting 2 Delivered

RTM External Mailer

We have non domain email addresses such [Deleted] gmail accounts that need to receive emails about idle jobs etc. LSF allows use to use an external mailer. We ended up setting "LSB_MAILTO=$MY_EMAIL" which the variable looks at /etc/profile, that e...
over 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Delivered

Prevent non-LSF users from running computing jobs on hosts

The customer would like LSF to include a functionality, where LSF prevents non-LSF users from accessing an LSF host's computing resources. This includes even access via rsh, ssh, or similar methods alike. The purpose of this function is so that LS...
over 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Delivered

bjdepinfo errors when dependent jobs are no longer in memory

When dependent jobs drop out of memory (after CLEAN_PERIOD), bjdepinfo gives an error: $ bjdepinfo : Failed in an LSF library call: Internal library error Dependent jobs need to be kept in memory, either by default, or by a setting a parameter sim...
over 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Delivered

LSF blimits command new option

blimits -o option to list only relevant resource and consumer columns, because many are irrelevant with the value of "-"
over 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 2 Delivered

bugroup / bmgroup query membership by user / hostname

I'd like to request a feature enhancement for the bugroup and bmgroup commands that would allow the ability to query what groups a userid or host belongs to. I'm thinking something like:bugroup -u would return a list of all usergroups is a member ...
almost 3 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Delivered

Enable changing default credentials in RBAC-database configuration

When using LSF Explorer with Role Based Access Control (RBAC) it is required to setup an additional database. The default username/password combination is pacuser:pacuser. It is stored as a hashed value under lsfsuite/ext/explorer/server/rbac/data...
almost 3 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Delivered

LSF Complementations in Delaying LDAP Responses

As we know, badmin reconfig checks whether an invalid user is set in lsb.users.But if an LDAP response is very delayed, LSF can only continue to wait for this.LSF does not have a function to reduce the username resolution time, and LSF does not lo...
almost 3 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Delivered

Modify cgroup memory limit of running job

With "bsub -M ..." LSF can use cgroups to limit the amount of memory a job can use. Unfortunately, bmod cannot change this for running, despite the cgroups do support modifying this.
almost 3 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 2 Delivered