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Spectrum LSF

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Enhance IBM LSF Simulator to minimize (manual) customization/consulting efforts

Actually, IBM LSF Simulator has the following limitations: -License scheduler jobs -one-time reservation -memlimit, cpulimit -pre- and postexec, jobstarter -load threshold scheduling -elims -Data Manager -Multicluster In addition, each Simulator i...
4 days ago in Spectrum LSF / Simulation & Prediction 0 Submitted

add 'default account name' field for a user to store account used for LSF jobs submission & Licenses.

Hello, in current RTM version (v10.2.0.14), it's not possible to define a default account name (used to submit LSF jobs) per RTM user. Is it possible to add such field in the user record to ease the end-user usage. is it also possible, like for em...
about 2 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Operations/RTM 1 Future consideration

We need pending_reasons and combined_res_req fields to be present in lsb.stream events

We need this fields to be present in lsb.stream events. - Job Pending Reasons - Combined Res Req
10 days ago in Spectrum LSF / Data Management 1 Under review

When setting LSF_STRICT_CHECKING=N, an option is needed to suppress the warning messages during reconfig, ckconfig, or mbdrestart.

Customers hope to waive those relevant warning messages to avoid the management process.
11 days ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 0 Under review

All LSF messages and errors outputs

Hello LSF team, It would be extermely helpful to get all the output messages and errors the LSF commands provide - standard commands such as bjobs, bsub, bkill, bconf and bmod. For example, in case of bconf when cluster needs to run badmin mbdrest...
13 days ago in Spectrum LSF / Documentation 0 Under review

Support combination of MIG and DCGM in GPUs with LSF

I got confirmation from dev team. Unfortunately, the combination of MIG and DCGM is not supported yet. So, for now, you cannot get job GPU information if MIG is enabled. You can raise an RFE on this matter so we can keep track of the request.
about 1 month ago in Spectrum LSF / Operations/RTM 1 Planned for future release

for loadSched memory if the submitted job has memory reservation the job should not be run if the nodes mem used + job memory reservation > loadSched memory limit

because users want to keep a certain amount of memory free. And currently the limit can be bypassed.
26 days ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 0 Under review

Affinity scheduling must take L3 cache hierarchy into account

Newer CPUs have multiple L3 caches, with dedicated cores per L3 cache. Running multi-threaded jobs on all cores within a shared L3 cache can reduce runtime in our cases up 70%, compared to running over multiple L3 caches. Think of the AMD EPYC 935...
3 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 2 Planned for future release

RTM High Availability deployment

Provide deployable options for RTM components in High Availability configuration including web service, data collection and database.
26 days ago in Spectrum LSF / Operations/RTM 0 Under review

Connect license checkouts to jobs

Uniquely connect the license checkouts to jobs. The idea is to put a unique value into LM_PROJECT environmental variable and then get the LM_PROJECT value via lmstat using the -lm option to display the project value. This will allow LSF, LS and RT...
about 2 months ago in Spectrum LSF / License Management 1 Future consideration