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Spectrum LSF

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Different signal(s) requested for job termination when the new Smart Cpu enforcement function terminates a job

The new Smart Cpu function (LSB_CPU_USAGE_ENF_CONTROL) in LSF issues a SIGXCPU to terminate jobs in violation of their cpu reservations. Instead we request LSF issue a soft kill followed by a hard kill. Something similar to SIGTERM followed by SIG...
about 9 years ago in Spectrum LSF 3 Delivered

multiple tableau server for high availability

In Platform Analytics 9.1.2, customer want to configure a Tableau Server system for high availability.And this is available on Tableau.But I heard that PA does not support multiple Tableau servers officially now.
about 9 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Delivered

LSF needs to provide default runlimit to RTM

RTM requires the runlimit of jobs to enable a feature to send warning emails to users prior to the job's end time. If a user does not use the -W flag when submitting a job, but instead relies on the default runlimit set by the queue, the informati...
about 9 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Delivered

Add memLimit in jobFinishLog

We use log files for user accounting which needs run time memory limit (memLimit in rLimits). But the field memLimit is not available in jobFinishLog (in lsb.acct). This makes it difficult to merge the memLimit fields with other data in lsb.acct. ...
about 9 years ago in Spectrum LSF 3 Delivered

Making to be able to check the number of jobs for multi thread job in By-Queue report

In RTM, most of queue information is represented with number of job slot.This is not matter, if the job uses single slot is used. But, these days, becuase multi thread jobs are increased, admin want to check total number of jobs for RUN & PEND...
about 9 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Delivered

Scrolling within the spooler section and File Selection Header should always show (RFC 4646). Format error msg for SDK

Make details and headers for the bottom half of the page in spooler contents page static.
about 9 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Delivered

Clear filter option to reset filter (default settings)

In the job display main list page, having the filter enabled all the times is very frustrating and confusing. There is need for a clear/reset filter button.
about 9 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Delivered

lsinfo needs a wide output for long resource names

The lsinfo -r output needs a wide option to help separate resources. Note the two below look identical:RESOURCE_NAME TYPE ORDER DESCRIPTIONperf_gr_track Numeric Dec perf group token to track usageperf_gr_track Numeric Dec perf group token to track...
over 9 years ago in Spectrum LSF 3 Delivered

Add functionality to LSF Advance Reservations

Allow LSF jobs start running before reservation and continue during resource reservation, if reservation allows to run these jobs.
over 9 years ago in Spectrum LSF 6 Delivered

LS API

blstat or blinfo command line tools are available to get information about license tokens, however there are no API functions for this purpose which would be very useful in license querying automation, because parsing of the console output of the ...
over 9 years ago in Spectrum LSF 3 Delivered