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Allow forwarded jobs to automatically return to the original cluster after a configurable pending timeout in the remote cluster.

In a MultiCluster environment, jobs can be forwarded from the original cluster to a remote cluster based on the MC_FORWARD_DELAY setting. However, once a job has been forwarded, it cannot return to the original cluster even if resources become ava...
about 6 hours ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling Submitted

AMD GPU Integration

We are experiencing problem with displaying the correct number of AMD GPUs which are assigned to a LSF job. Even though we request 1 GPU and LSF sets correctly the ROCR_VISIBLE_DEVICES=0 the command amd-smi displays all of them. We are able to use...
27 minutes ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling

Affinity compaction / defragmentation

I propose to have automated compaction and defragmentation for jobs dispatched with affinity. Reducing fragmentation will allow more larger jobs to start in the same Numa node (or AMD CCX), having better performance. Ideally this runs automaticall...
9 days ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling Under review

Consider AMD ccd/l3 cache in affinity string

Hello, Currently, using affinity string, we can target a core, a numa, a socket or memory, but not an AMD CCD (Core Complex Dies, L3 cache shared by 8 or 16 cores) Allowing jobs requesting less cores than available in a CCD (8 or 16 currently) to ...
about 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling Planned for future release

lsrun should support an access control list for authorized users

In our cluster, LSF users sometimes run an 'lsrun' and run jobs on the LSF Master!!!! This should never happen, it makes the stability of the LSF master at the mercy of random user jobs. We cannot turn this functionality off for all users, so an a...
3 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling Functionality already exists

Increase available number of global job ids for LSF

Current job id is limited to 32b. With ever growing number of jobs and scaling of multi-cluster use, the job id should be extended beyond 32b to avoid frequent rollover situations and/or cases of redundant ids. Recommend to increase to 64b or more.
over 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling

Merge RES_REQ also when alternative RES_REQs are used

Currently settings from the app-profile are not merges with the job/queue settings when a alternative RES_REQ is provided in the submission command (bsub). We require this because we have a need to specify alternative RES_REQs in the submission an...
about 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling Future consideration

Native LSF support for Kubernetes

K8's support similar to support for Docker would be helpful for teams using LSF and K8's for their CI/CD pipeline.
7 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling Needs more information

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. ...
about 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling Future consideration

Expand API (or bjobs -o option) to report memory reservation on a per-job basis

Determining per-job memory usage is valuable, but we also need to be able to see, on a per-job basis, how much memory job(s) have reserved at a point in time. Partly we need to be able to compare to the actual memory use to see if they're over-res...
almost 3 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling Future consideration