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Spectrum LSF

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Implement Kerberos Constrained Delegation for LSF

currently LSF uses kerberos API "krb5_cc_retrieve_cred" to retrieve user TGT, details can be found:http://web.mit.edu/kerberos/krb5-latest/doc/appdev/refs/api/krb5_cc_retrieve_cred.html this API doesn't work for TGT created by constrained delegati...
over 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 1 Not under consideration

Provide an Option to break out of 'bsub' if a job will not submit due to a user hitting their pending job limit

This is a major problem when using a web service to control jobs, you would much rather have the binary end with an exit code than continually block in a loop saying you have reached your pending jobs limit. It's really bad design behavior IMHO.
7 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 0 Future consideration

Permission model for Dashboards and Reports

In our environment, a few different teams will make use of different reporting capabilities in LSF Explorer in different scopes. Therefore they will be creating different reports and dashboards. So there is the need to introduce something like a p...
about 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Reporting/Explorer 2 Not under consideration

Clean left over job's daemon processes after job res finished

We have several workflows that the job script can run tools that will spawn processes in the backgroup or as daemons that will stay active once the job script ends. Since the job script ends, res will end with the exit code of the job script, but ...
7 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Other 3 Functionality already exists

Split License Scheduler log files

License Scheduler does not have the function to split log files(bld.log and blcollect.log). Could you please add a function to split the log file as below? bld.log.hostname bld.log.hostname.1 bld.log.hostname.2 bld.log.hostname.3 blcolle...
about 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 0 Future consideration

Add Regular Expressions for Project Limits and SLA Auto-Attach and Permissions

We utilize hierarchical projects and at times we would like to allow certain projects and certain functions, both that are a part of the hierarchy to utilize an SLA, for example, assume that the project has three levels project_code:finance_code:f...
over 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 0 Future consideration

Enable option for hardcoding GPU memory request like its available for CPU memory request

At this moment IBM offers features of hardcoding CPU memory. We have implemented this feature in our cluster with esub scripting. Similarly we want to have same feature available for GPU memmory (gmem) to be hardcoded. I have raised ticket to our ...
about 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 2 Not under consideration

Add IBM LSF RTM alert interval by weekly basis

IBM Spectrum LSF RTM only have hours, daily basis of alert pop-up column could choose. For management of current alert aggregation, We need IBM to add this feature enhancement into RTM fix patch. Add weekly diagram basis of alert. It could sav...
over 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Operations/RTM 1 Not under consideration

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