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Spectrum LSF

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job group management improvement

Hello,checking log file of RTM server, we found a recurrent warning triggered by too many job group for one of our LSF cluster. this highlight that we cannot have more than ~7000 job group for a cluster, the impacted cluster having ~30k explicit j...
about 4 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 1 Delivered

File Transfers for Large Files are Unreliable with /tmp folder too small

2020-02-18: PSA should log an RFE to provide a setting in pmc.conf to allow the Application Center administrator to define a 'scratch' directory other than /tmp.Also we don't understand why we can not submit a job with template cmd when the /tmp i...
about 4 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Delivered

LSF - CSM Job Script Failure does not result in requeue

If a single node in a large job experiences and CSMSCRIPT Failure the job will simply complete and not be requeued for another run on a different set of nodes.
about 4 years ago in Spectrum LSF 0 Delivered

Use coherent units and unit abbreviations for memory sizes in `bjobs -o` output

bjobs -o "max_mem memlimit" creates a hard-to-parse-and-process output because it a) doesn't respect LSF_UNIT_FOR_LIMITS for the numbers b) uses different units for the numbers c) uses different abbreviations for the same unit ("Gbytes" vs. "G") T...
about 4 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Delivered

Improve the performance of MBATCHD/MBSCHD when resolving invalid host name or host group name.

When using command to inquire information of invalid host or host group, LSF takes long time to response if DNS client enabled.
about 4 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Delivered

Take job size into account in historical run_time

LSF's fairshare includes a RUN_TIME parameter that can track the total time accumulated by a user / group's completed jobs. By weighting this parameter, a user's historic jobs can be accounted for in determining their job priority. This factor doe...
about 4 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Delivered

Preemption of GPU Jobs by Non-GPU Jobs on AC922 Compute Nodes

As stated in the Case TS003293417, the preemption between GPU and non-GPU jobs only works one way: - GPU jobs *can* preempt Non-GPU jobs - Non-GPU jobs *cannot* preempt GPU jobs This is a strong limitation for clients who would like to take advant...
about 4 years ago in Spectrum LSF 0 Delivered

one to many job mapping

-- the job submission user needs be one particular user, -- the job execution user should be mapped to various users. In order for LSF to support such use case, an enhancement is to add 1) a new bsub option to specify the job execution user 2) a n...
about 4 years ago in Spectrum LSF 5 Delivered

Disable Reports tab in LSF suite for normal users

We would like to disable Reports tab in LSF suite for normal users when they logged in . It should be visible only for admins. We dont want to expose this reports to users. I logged a ticket with support and they confirmed that it is not possible ...
over 4 years ago in Spectrum LSF 0 Delivered

RTM remote database supporting mysql request

RTM 10.2 seems only support mariadb for remote. But right now nvidia only has mysql db 5.x and even for future we will continue using mysql db for RTM. So we will have problem to upgrade RTM from 10.1 to 10.2 due to RTM remote database support. We...
over 4 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Delivered