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Spectrum LSF

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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

A forwarded job can not submit jobs to submission cluster.

When a job is forwarded to a remote cluster and running on a server host, it wants to submit some jobs to the submission cluster by sourcing the submission cluster's LSF environment. However, the job will be submitted to the execution cluster, ins...
over 8 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Delivered

Could specifiy a functional name when launch a flow

The name of a submitted flow is always the same --> users cannot differentiate between simultaneously running flows.
over 6 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Delivered

systemd service unit files for LSF

Currently, LSF provides init.d scripts to start/stop LSF services on the host. This work well for SysV based systems like RHEL6 but not so well with systemd based systems like RHEL7. systemd allows us to control boot time dependencies with more gr...
over 8 years ago in Spectrum LSF 6 Delivered

bwait command logging

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

Allow Dynamic Job Priority column to be displayed

Currently, jobs displayed in application center are displayed in either dispatch order, or based upon the sorted column. The customer would like the ability to add a dynamic priority column to the list of available columns and then display, for pe...
over 6 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...
about 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 1 Delivered

LSF 10.x Docker integration: JOB_STARTER runs as root and does 'docker run -user <XXX>'

From: Khalid Ahmed Date: Wednesday, March 2, 2016 at 12:23 PMTo: "Miller, Michael D" Cc: John Toppa , Frank N Lee Subject: Re: Fw: Follow up items Hi Michael, It was nice meeting with you last week in Groton. We are glad to work with you to addres...
over 8 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Delivered

allow LSF administrators to extend max run time of queued and running jobs past the queue wallclock limit

See PMR 12578,L6Q,000. Cluster administrators should be able to extend the running time of jobs that were submitted to a queue with a walllclock limit. Currently there is no way to prevent a job from getting killed by queue wallclock limits.
over 8 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Delivered