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Spectrum LSF

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Enable bjobs to report peak CPU efficiency

Need to be able to retrieve the peak CPU efficiency from the bjobs command at the end of the run.
over 3 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 4 Delivered

Add bkill option that will set the job status to DONE rather than EXIT

Currently all jobs terminated via bkill are set to status EXIT. With the growing usage of bioinformatics tools and applications that were traditionally run on dedicated servers being integrated into use on HPC resources there is a shifting paradig...
almost 3 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 4 Delivered

The number of TCP exceeds the max number 2*200 defined in LSF source code

We're getting the following message from master lim.log.doAcceptConn: Can't maintain this big clientMap[400], Connection from 10.230.236.102:36587 dropped And I received the following explanation and advice through case number TS003933691. It look...
over 3 years ago in Spectrum LSF 3 Delivered

Allow Stacking/Overloading of Host Closure Events

Allow the stacking of closure events. In other words, make it permissible for LSF to track multiple closure events, and release those closure events systematically.
about 6 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Delivered

bkill command enhancement

We need to use bkill command to kill a specific user's pending jobs. However, there's no such a option for bkill.
almost 3 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 3 Delivered

Need Python API for LSF 10.1

As we may consider LSF 10.1 use, we would like to have LSF Python API support for LSF 10.1 as well.
almost 8 years ago in Spectrum LSF 3 Delivered

Issue with data purging : Wastage of vertica license

As discussed in the PMR, due to bad design of data purging in PA 9, there are two issues 1. Wastage of vertica license i.e. at times data is retained in the DB even beyond data retention period defined in SYS_tables_to_parition. 2. PA admin has no...
about 9 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Delivered

Enable the selection of any job data type to be a selectable filter in the Grid -> View Jobs Listing page in RTM

We manage our resources via resource pools that are allocated per service class. Therefore, we would like to view all jobs in a specific SLA. However, this data type is not selectable in the Grid -> View Jobs Listing page so we can't select thi...
about 9 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Delivered

Graphing of 'badmin perfmon view' data [JSON]

We graph data from the 'badmin perfmon view' report and it has a few issues:* Date strings have no timezone or year* While it's good for human readability, it's not great for computer parsing It would be useful to have a more parsable format (e.g....
about 6 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Delivered

Enable 'include' function to reduce lsb.* file complexity

We have very huge user group (due to hierarchical fairshare) configurations in lsb.users that are generated by tools, and would like to use something like an include statement to add them to the main file.
over 6 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Delivered