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Spectrum LSF

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FLEXlm supports 'uncounted node locked' Feature Types Report the Checkouts for Them

By default RTM always report 0 max license and 0 in use. However, if you look at the checkouts, there are several in use. Can we get RTM to at least report the number of checked out licenses for this feature class?
9 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Operations/RTM 0 Future consideration

Provide an Option to break out of 'bsub' if a job will not submit due to a user hitting their pending job limit

This is a major problem when using a web service to control jobs, you would much rather have the binary end with an exit code than continually block in a loop saying you have reached your pending jobs limit. It's really bad design behavior IMHO.
9 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 0 Future consideration

bhosts and lshosts should have an option to let them perform more like the scheduler

Currently, if I have a host with two exclusive resources in the lsf.cluster file <hostname> <model> <type> 1 () () () (!res1 !res2) If I run the following bhosts command, it acts like "grep" instead of like the scheduler, and rep...
over 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 0 Future consideration

Support RUN_TIME_DECAY on GPU Runtime

Currently RUN_TIME_DECAY only modifies Fairshare for CPU jobs and not GPU jobs.
10 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 0 Future consideration

Free up a job slot if lsfadmin suspends a job

We wold like to have the ability to free up a job slot when a lsfadmin suspends a job due to some valid reasons. In our case, we are trying to run a script to check if the user has reached the quota on their current run directory, and if they are ...
about 4 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 2 Future consideration

bjobs -o reserved_mem or bhosts -o reserved_mem

To see how much memory is reserved on a host, we need to parse the bhosts -l <hostname> command, and it doesn't give us info about which job is reserving how much memory. I'd either like to see one of the following: bhosts -o 'jobid reserved...
over 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 1 Future consideration

lsfproxyd - Persistent blocking rules

LSFProxyd is a new solution to help scheduler handle queries effectively. This RFE is to enable persistent blocksing rules for heavy query hitters. Same has been discussed with John Welch in a separate discussion.
10 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 1 Future consideration

Show unformatted pending reasons with bjobs -UF

Information for PENDING REASONS remains formatted for the command "bjobs -UF [-p|-p0|-p1|-p2|-p3] <jobid>" which makes it hard for scripts to parse the output. Current output: $: bjobs -UF -p3 <jobid> ... PENDING REASONS: Candidate hos...
over 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Reporting/Explorer 0 Future consideration

IBM Spectrum LSF Application Center 10.2.0 | Enable single sign-on with SAML in Azure

Hi team, We are currently have LSF PAC on cloud environment and expect to integrate Azure AD into Application Center. As far as I know once submitted IBM ticket, they inform us that PAC is not verified with Azure AD, that may cause by signature (c...
almost 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / End User UI/Applicaton Center 1 Future consideration

Add additional bhist information about personnel who modified the LSF job

Enhance bhist to show who modifies the job. The information is not presented in JOB_MODIFY2 event record. Current user info in JOB_MODIFY2 is job owner and user auth for remote job in MC
12 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 0 Future consideration