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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 &...
over 5 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 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...
over 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...
over 5 years ago in Spectrum LSF 0 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.
almost 6 years ago in Spectrum LSF 0 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...
almost 4 years ago in Spectrum LSF / License Management 2 Delivered

Listening to jobstates

We submit our jobs to LSF with the LSF API (C++, lsbatch.h). Our software has to give a feedback to the users about the current state of the jobs. For this query we call lsb_readjobinfo for each active job in our list. It can take a long time to c...
almost 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 0 Delivered

LSF enforced limits

LSF currently inherits the environment (limits) from the system when the LSF Daemons are started, and doesn't compensate based on whether the LSF daemons are started by process 1 (init) or by root. If LSF is configured to startup as part of the sy...
almost 10 years ago in Spectrum LSF 3 Delivered

hostcache auto-delete function in the mbatchd restart

Dynamic hosts remain in the cluster unless you intentionally remove them.And the manual related to it is as follows.https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/spectrum-lsf/10.1.0?topic=cluster-remove-dynamic-hostsSuppose we delete the hostcache file, not modify ...
about 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 2 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...
about 6 years ago in Spectrum LSF 0 Delivered

Automatic adding OS version as RESOURCE in lsload's output.

In LSF cluster, there are so many kind of OS version.it is depend on EDA design cad tool version, because customer has so many kinds of OS version servers to run their application.OS vendor releases new OS version frequently and sometimes, they bu...
about 6 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Delivered