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Spectrum LSF

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Could specifiy a functional name when launch a flow

The name of a submitted flow is always the same --> users cannot differentiate between simultaneously running flows.
over 5 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Delivered

Allow Dynamic Job Priority column to be displayed

Currently, jobs displayed in application center are displayed in either dispatch order, or based upon the sorted column. The customer would like the ability to add a dynamic priority column to the list of available columns and then display, for pe...
almost 6 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Delivered

LSF API should offer asynchronous event handler for job status notifications

It would be nice if LSF had functionality for job event notification similar to LDAP's LDAP_SERVER_NOTIFICATION_OID control (and Microsoft's Active Directory has this, as an LDAP implementation), where you can use an extended LDAP asynchronous sea...
almost 6 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Delivered

Provide Option to Automatically Pull and Prune Containers from Exec Hosts

Currently LSF allows defining of an application profile to pull images selectively based upon configuration. However there is now way to provide pre-staging of images, and pruning of under utilized images. The customer would like support similar t...
almost 6 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Delivered

LSF SE needs a way to set waiting time before forwarding jobs to remote cluster in Multi-Cluster environment

LSF AE + XL mode provides MAX_RSCHED_TIME=penditng_time_to_be_recalled wait_time_to_reschedule, but LSF SE supports only pending_time_to_be_recalled. As LSF SE has no control for the wait_time_to_reschedule, job could be unnecessarily pended for a...
almost 6 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Delivered

Enable automatic killing of PSUSP jobs after configurable time period

Allow queue level automatic termination of jobs in PSUSP status after a configurable amount of time.
about 6 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Delivered

Performance is slow in submission host when use data manager to handle requested files

bsub delay on the submission host
about 6 years ago in Spectrum LSF 6 Delivered

if there is not job tmp directory, RES will re-create it

To have better control over RES created files like .1513002449.181663317.acct , which are responsible for proper accounting of HPC jobs. Currently these intermediate files are created under directories defined through LSB_JOB_TMPDIR or LSF_TMP_DIR...
about 6 years ago in Spectrum LSF 0 Delivered

Jobs that get into PSUSP state because they reached MAX_JOB_REQUEUE cannot be killed by an appropriate JOB_CONTROL mechanism

Answer from PMR: For the PSUSP jobs JOB_CONTROL can not work on PSUSP job. We have checked the source code in these days and found that 1. LSF doesn't set any environment variable when a job reaches its requeue limit and be put into PSUSP status 2...
over 6 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Delivered

Have a better control of low memory jobs when dynamic priority is high due to higher fairshare in hierarchical FS tree

In hierarchical user based fairshare where there is multiple level of user groups and when fairshare is applied in higher levels the low memory jobs in the user groups which has higher fairshare in higher level gets scheduled continuously making h...
over 6 years ago in Spectrum LSF 0 Delivered