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Spectrum LSF

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When Cluster Collection is Down mark the various hosts as down in RTM

This helps brining attention to people who may not notice that the cluster collection is down
7 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Operations/RTM 1 Not under consideration

Support RUN_TIME_DECAY on GPU Runtime

Currently RUN_TIME_DECAY only modifies Fairshare for CPU jobs and not GPU jobs.
7 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 0 Future consideration

Spectrum LSF's k8s support

Spectrum LSF used to provide an adapter for k8s as a container orchestration to use with LSF's job scheduling as its add-on function, which is withdrawn now. The customer would like to restore it so they could improve portability/availability and ...
8 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 1 Needs more information

lsfproxyd - Persistent blocking rules

LSFProxyd is a new solution to help scheduler handle queries effectively. This RFE is to enable persistent blocksing rules for heavy query hitters. Same has been discussed with John Welch in a separate discussion.
8 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 1 Future consideration

New metrics available in LSF 10.1.14 [CPU Peak, cpu_efficiency ...] need to be captured in RTM

Collecting Job data like [CPU Peak, cpu_efficiency ...] will be very useful for Analysis.
8 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Operations/RTM 1 Planned for future release

Allow to set/modify the same option in multiple esubs

Currently a specific option can only be set or modified once through an esub, even if multiple esub's are run. If an option is set a second time, the error message ... Conflict parameter <PARAMETER_NAME> - Ignored. appears. There are at leas...
9 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 1 Future consideration

Cleanup user details with bqueues -lr output if they don't have running/done jobs in system

Currently, we can find thousands of entries for all users even though they have ZERO STARTED jobs as listed in bqueues -lr output. For some of larger farms, these entries are close to 7M records and bqueues -lr takes long time to return the data. ...
9 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 2 Planned for future release

Expand API (or bjobs -o option) to report memory reservation on a per-job basis

Determining per-job memory usage is valuable, but we also need to be able to see, on a per-job basis, how much memory job(s) have reserved at a point in time. Partly we need to be able to compare to the actual memory use to see if they're over-res...
9 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 0 Future consideration

Add those 'HOSTS:' column for Queues, Pools, and Host Groups as defined in the lsb.* files

RTM does a good job normalizing the display of hosts in each of these categories, but having the raw value, as entered by the administrator is also very useful for operations. Currently, these values are not collected.
9 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Operations/RTM 2 Not under consideration

LSF Resource Connecter should allow start/stop of *existing* AWS VMs.

We have procedural limitations with creating new instances in AWS on-demand by LSF Resource Connector (RC) for security reasons. Our preference would be to create instances ahead of time and let LSF RC start and stop the instances based on demand....
9 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Cloud Bursting 3 Functionality already exists