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Spectrum LSF

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Enabling Multiple MPI like OpenMPI, mvapich, and others for distributed processing Systems for optimized processing

IBM, Intel, Nvidia, and others have their own optimized MPI, also we found new versions of mvapich from Ohio State University, therefore we need take this suggestion into consideration. We hope that IBM Spectrum LSF have the unified management of ...
over 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Other 1 Delivered

This info is related to IBM Spectrum RTM tool license usage. Currently we could only able to monitor Lmstat and RLM license usage via RTM monitoring toll. Here my request is we need to be added all license daemon services to monitor license usage.

This info is related to IBM Spectrum RTM tool license usage. Currently we could only able to monitor Lmstat and RLM license usage via RTM monitoring toll. Here my request is we need to be added all license daemon services to monitor license usage....
almost 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / License Management 1 Delivered

Add EFA support to AWS Resource Connector

Please add support for EFA-enabled EC2 instances to the AWS Resource Connector. The EFA feature has to be explicitly enabled via command-line arguments / flags to the EC2 API.IBM uses Java code to call the AWS EC2 API, so the feature must be added...
over 5 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Delivered

cluster job submission slow and child mbatchd process stuck

Per the PMR mentioned, Discussing with the Dev team at IBM, the "bread/bstatus" command is possible to add to the child mbatchd to query.
about 7 years ago in Spectrum LSF 0 Delivered

reject multiple bmod/bkill's on same array within a time frame

In reference to PMR 59023,019,866 , our LSF cluster has frequently halted and the scheduler spirals down due to a user running too many bmod/bkill on large job arrays. Despite internal training sessions and company wide communications, this issue ...
about 9 years ago in Spectrum LSF 5 Delivered

Recommended patch report code

The pversions command should have an option to output a code, like an md5sum, that enables admins to enter it in the support portal to find what patches are recommended for their server. In addition to (https://developer.ibm.com/answers/questions/...
over 5 years ago in Spectrum LSF 0 Delivered

LSF support suspend jobs can release memory

LSF support suspend jobs can release memory
about 9 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Delivered

Connect to existing Docker Job to get inside Container

Ability for a User to connect or attach to existing none interactive Job from terminal, that User schedule by bsub, to get access inside Docker Container.This is to be able to troubleshoot from inside running Docker Container. This is critical fea...
over 5 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Delivered

Increase granularity of controls in SECURE_JOB_INFO_LEVEL

In the lsb.params file, an administrator can set the SECURE_JOB_INFO_LEVEL to one of five levels, giving them granular control over what data users can see about other users jobs using the 'bjobs' command. An administrator can also set ENABLE_JOB_...
over 5 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Delivered

IDLE_FACTOR/eadmin - Enable detection for parallel idle jobs

Currently LSF supports the eadmin exception on IDLE Job detection. Even though it's not mentioned in the doc the trigger works for serial jobs only (CPUtime/runtime). Parallel jobs are not correctly considered because the overall CPUtime of the jo...
over 5 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Delivered