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Spectrum LSF

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Multiple queues request for job - consider taking in account queue limitations and lsf.resources for better job dispatching.

Today, when we submit a job with multiple queues (bsub "high risk") The job will be dispatched to a relevant queue by examine parameters such as queue status(open/closed), queue hosts, time-limit. In a situation, where a queue "high" have a ujob_l...
7 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 1 Not under consideration

lsfproxyd - Persistent blocking rules

LSFProxyd is a new solution to help scheduler handle queries effectively. This RFE is to enable persistent blocksing rules for heavy query hitters. Same has been discussed with John Welch in a separate discussion.
about 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 1 Future consideration

Be able to send stdout/stderr to both file and email

See ticket TS015786331; currently cannot have stderr & stdout go to both a file and email. We would like the option to do both.
8 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Reporting/Explorer 1 Functionality already exists

Expand energy stats to cover non-exclusive jobs

As part of working towards our net zero we would like to request more general energy measurement for non-exclusive jobs. We believe this would benefit all LSF users, particularly those working in the UK research environment where there is an incre...
8 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Reporting/Explorer 1 Future consideration

Allow to set/modify the same option in multiple esubs

Currently a specific option can only be set or modified once through an esub, even if multiple esub's are run. If an option is set a second time, the error message ... Conflict parameter <PARAMETER_NAME> - Ignored. appears. There are at leas...
over 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 1 Future consideration

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...
about 3 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 1 Not under consideration

Expand API (or bjobs -o option) to report memory reservation on a per-job basis

Determining per-job memory usage is valuable, but we also need to be able to see, on a per-job basis, how much memory job(s) have reserved at a point in time. Partly we need to be able to compare to the actual memory use to see if they're over-res...
over 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 0 Future consideration

Improve License Scheduler to be able to read the PID of the process from lmstat

License Scheduler has a big bug that is documented in ========================================= https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/spectrum-lsf/10.1.0?topic=notes-known-issues-limitations Same features cannot be merged to the tasks When a user submits mo...
8 months ago in Spectrum LSF / License Management 3 Planned for future release

Support LSF Windows ARM Based Execution Hosts

We would like to be able to install LSF Server on ARM based Windows machines for our Windows based simulation farms.
about 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Installation 1 Not under consideration

Update lsf.shared with up-to-date CPU models

The file `lsf.shared` provided with Spectrum LSF is outdated. The CPU models listed seem to be 10 years old and older and there don't seem to be any updates from IBM. I suggest that IBM regularly updates this file with up-to-date CPU models and me...
over 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 1 Not under consideration