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Spectrum LSF

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Extend SessionScheduler being able to manage small parallel application (size up to one node)

Today we have applications/software running in serial mode via session scheduler (runtime per task <<10min) with up to 10000 tasks. These applications/software will migrate to parallel usage soon and we want to keep the SessionScheduler func...
almost 3 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Delivered

LSF/GPFS monitoring and job submission

Nvidia would like a documented/supported methodology to ensure lsf and scale/gpfs nsd nodes are in healthy state prior to job submission.
almost 3 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Delivered

RLM dataloader

The LSF License Scheduler now supports RLM as well as FlexLM, but LSF Explorer only supports FlexLM. An RLM dataloader is needed for Explorer to allow the RLM licences configured in License Scheduler to be monitored.
almost 3 years ago in Spectrum LSF / License Management 0 Delivered

Cluster level graph for used/total memory

Customer would like to have a RTM graph for cluster level avg Used/Total memory. Log on behalf of customer. Please contact youfeng.shen@shell.com
about 3 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Delivered

Add bkill option that will set the job status to DONE rather than EXIT

Currently all jobs terminated via bkill are set to status EXIT. With the growing usage of bioinformatics tools and applications that were traditionally run on dedicated servers being integrated into use on HPC resources there is a shifting paradig...
about 3 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 4 Delivered

Set a limit in the MC receive queue

TSMC is using MC to balance work load between clusters. When the submission cluster is busy, it forwards some jobs to execution clusters. The execution cluster has it's own workload except the forwarded jobs. To avoid the forwarded jobs occupy mos...
about 3 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration / Cloud Bursting / Scheduling 1 Delivered

bkill command enhancement

We need to use bkill command to kill a specific user's pending jobs. However, there's no such a option for bkill.
about 3 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 3 Delivered

Spectrum LSF Hostgroup negation to be made working

Allow for negations of hostgroups based on regular expressions in queue definition.
about 3 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 2 Delivered

no Interactive field in job detail view

In the Grid -> Job Info -> Details -> Job Details tab view, there is no field to know if it's an interactive jobs or not. A specific color is set in the Grid -> Job Info -> Details array but can be overridden by another status (for ...
about 3 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Delivered

ADD vm_type field in lsb.stream

This is enhancement request to add VM_TYPE field in lsb.stream's JOB_FINISH2 event as well as in LSB.STATUS's JOB_STATUS2 event whereever possible.
about 3 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Cloud Bursting 2 Delivered