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Spectrum LSF

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Generic Dataloader ( storage)

Request to have a generic dataloader in line with standard dataloading process of LSF explorer. This will help to load our additional data in LSF explorer while keeping the standards ( like timestamp, format,.. of data) in line with existing LSF &...
about 5 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Delivered

License token distribution without share based calculation by LSF License Scheduler

In License Scheduler it is mandatory to configure Project mode or Cluster mode and specify the shares for all the defined Features.However, some license tokens are not tied to any project or cluster and should be distributed freely, without any fa...
over 3 years ago in Spectrum LSF / License Management 2 Delivered

All mem & VM graphs are in KB

All mem & VM graphs are in KB and for some of them, the labels are false. To express a GB value, currently the basic unit for memory, graphs shown M of KB, not easily understandable.It would be much better to express value in GB directly using...
about 5 years ago in Spectrum LSF 3 Delivered

Implement business mapping in LSF Explorer

Need to implement following business mapping in LSF explorer. The use case is that our customers are not familiar with the IT type of naming convention for example cluster_name, LSF project name or user group name. To let our customers use the LSF...
about 5 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 ...
over 8 years ago in Spectrum LSF 5 Delivered

LSF support suspend jobs can release memory

LSF support suspend jobs can release memory
over 8 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Delivered

LSF should support passing commands/options to container.

LSF currently can not run docker job when the job is a command or option to the container even though "docker run" can run the command successfully. This is one of common ways to use container. Please enhance LSF to support.
about 5 years ago in Spectrum LSF 0 Delivered

allow timezone in time base configuration

allow time zone specification in time based configuration to synchronize LSF clusters around the world, and also License Scheduler especially when there's Daily Saving Time for some regions (switching at different dates) and none for others. there...
over 5 years ago in Spectrum LSF 0 Delivered

bwait command logging

bwait logging in querylog or through some other method/file?
over 3 years ago in Spectrum LSF 4 Delivered

expansion of bhosts -o

Being able to see the currently available and reserved memory values for a host[group] requires a 'bhosts -l' report. It would be very nice to report something like: $ bhosts -o 'HOST_NAME mem mem_reserved' [host_name ... | host_group ... | comput...
almost 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / End User UI/Applicaton Center 0 Delivered