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Spectrum LSF

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Need to submit jobs from x86_64 systems to CORAL systems

The IBM supercomputer is only one part of the computing ecosystem in the center. We need the ability to submit jobs back into the cluster from other platforms in the center that are x86_64.
about 6 years ago in Spectrum LSF 0 Delivered

Telemetry for LSF scheduler performance

LSF struggles in large farms with many running pending jobs and thousands of users in fairshare tree. LSF's struggle with heavy query activity is well documented. It would be great if LSF can provide telemetry on its own performance and what speci...
over 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 2 Delivered

weighted throttling in lsf proxyd

From the documentations it seems, LSF Proxyd does not differentiates between a service account vs an individual user account and can't have diff policies for diff user accounts. Our farms have a good mix of service accounts which launch thousands ...
over 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 2 Delivered

Adjustable Number of MPS Daemons for GPU Sharing

For now, IBM Spectrum LSF allows automatically instantiating one single MPS Daemon when requested through the '-gpu' directive:---gpu 'mps=yes:[...]'-- However, it has proved beneficial in several performance benchmarks conducted on different clie...
over 6 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Delivered

Provide capability to view jobs submission environment

In prior releases, if an administrator needed to investigate a submission script, they could goto the LSF info directory and review the job script. However, this is not longer possible using the in memory algorithm. This functionality needs to be ...
over 6 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Delivered

Allow 'ssacct' to work without specifying a file path when the session is still running

Currently Session Scheduler's 'ssacct' command works without the -f option only when the Session is finished. LSF knows where the account file is when the job is running, so why can we not see the account output when the session is running?
over 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 0 Delivered

Improve the performance of MBATCHD/MBSCHD when resolving invalid host name or host group name.

When using command to inquire information of invalid host or host group, LSF takes long time to response if DNS client enabled.
almost 5 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Delivered

allow lsb.stream files to use data from already existing lsb.acct

If the lsb.stream file not generated or has been removed, LSF Explorer can't load the job data into ES. Currently LSF Explorer doesn't have the functionality to load the data from lsb.acct files, but it is possible to re-generate lsb.stream file b...
over 6 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Delivered

Added User Group aggregation for RTM

We would like RTM to aggregate the User Group information so that in the Grid -> View Jobs Listing when the UGroup value is selected that all user groups that are members of the user group in the UGroup field are included in the selection.
about 10 years ago in Spectrum LSF 3 Delivered

Email disable for mbatchd and enable for sbatchd

Currently , there is no way to seperately disable mbatchd emails v/s sbatchd emails. Means. We have set email set to N in lsf.conf , so that by default job report emails are not sent. However some users who need email can set in their environment ...
over 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 1 Delivered