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Status Future consideration
Workspace Spectrum LSF
Components Scheduling
Created by Guest
Created on Apr 28, 2025

RELATED IDEAS

GSLA Resource Loaning - Add the ability to loan to specific users or projects

When a GSLA resource pool is defined for a specific type of workload, it is not practical or desirable to loan to just any other type of job profile. The work-a-round today is to include a resource limit definition to prevent this from occurring. This adds additional overhead to the scheduling process and can be detrimental to the service itself if the host pool is larger than a few hundred servers.

Add a BORROWER policy to the LOAN_POLICIES definitions to limit who can borrow from the particular resource pool.

The BORROWER can be a PROJECT, FAIRSHARE_GROUP, or list of USERS. In the event of multiple BORROWERS, the solution should allow for a percentage of the loan pool to be assigned to each BORROWER. (As depicted in Idea SPCLSF-I-716)

Wildcard capability should be an option for the PROJECT borrower setting, since the PROJECT code could be constructed with a common prefix followed by multiple suffix values.

By including this BORROWER capability, the additional limit can be eliminated and the borrower can be evaluated as part of the loaning algorithm for better scheduler efficiency and control.

Needed By Yesterday (Let's go already!)
  • Guest
    Jul 25, 2025

    One of the things that we really wanted was to limit the amount of loaning in a pool by the Service Class (Owner of the allocation).  So, say a team owned 5k cores that 500TB of memory, they only wanted to allow 2k cores and 200TB of memory to be loan-able from their allocation.  The whole loan policy is a global value in the pool and not configurable by Service Class basically.  The idea of who can borrow layers nicely in to that concept.

    On the wildcard bit, having that be a regex is critical IMHO.

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  • Admin
    Bill McMillan
    Jun 9, 2025

    This is something we may consider in the future based on community voting.

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