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Spectrum LSF

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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.
over 9 years ago in Spectrum LSF 3 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 4 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Delivered

fix systemctl script to restart sbatchd

The root sbatchd crashes frequently in our cluster (and without anything useful in the log), but systemctl is not configured to restart the daemon. Please see the details in the related support case, but essentially we need to make it so this daem...
over 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 1 Delivered

A bunch of jobs dispatched together

The background:For some EDA application, it needs to start up several jobs together. After the jobs are started, they will connect to a server to register. The server waits for the registration from the jobs within a specified time interval. After...
about 8 years ago in Spectrum LSF 4 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.
over 6 years ago in Spectrum LSF 0 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/...
almost 5 years ago in Spectrum LSF 0 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...
almost 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_...
almost 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...
almost 5 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Delivered

Multi-cluster pre-exec failure should kill job from source cluster

These documents make it look like this issue is addressed, but they are not functioning as they should. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/spectrum-lsf/10.1.0?topic=lsbparams-remote-max-preexec-retry https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/spectrum-lsf/10.1.0?topic=...
over 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 0 Delivered