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Spectrum LSF

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Can bstop release slots in order that other jobs can start on the same host ?

Here is an example. I tried the following case. gnx5561 has been booked by advanced reservation: RSVID TYPE USER NCPUS RSV_HOSTS TIME_WINDOW res0 group res0 3/4 gnx5561:3/4 7/28/18/0-7/30/12/0 I have launched one job reserving 3 cpus (857274). It ...
almost 9 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Not under consideration

Update rusage with DYNAMIC=Y/duration

With ENABLE_DYNAMIC_RUSAGE=Y a job's rusage string is modified if it uses more licences than it requested, however if a job uses less licences than requested the rusage string is not modifed when DYNAMIC=Y/duration is set to remove licence reserva...
almost 9 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration

RTM enhancement request

Users want this enhance to RTM..All communication regarding the Job from RTM carry a weblink/hyperlink of the Job
almost 9 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Not under consideration

Consider local slots and exported slots together for Lease Mode

Consider local slots and exported slots together for Lease Mode
almost 9 years ago in Spectrum LSF 3 Not under consideration

LSF/GSLA LOAN policies distribution option

When configuring loan policy to allow other queues (q1, q2,...) to use these resources that are not needed immediately for guarantees, we want those resources to be distributed as follow [q1 xx% , q2 yy% , q3 zz%, ...] . LSF don't support this syn...
almost 9 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration

JOB_CONTROLS (attached to queue) only send scripted command to 1st node in job

When you add customer job control scripts to an application profile - those job controls are only sent to the 0th process in a parallel job (run using blaunch).
almost 9 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration

LSF to preempt tasks in a running parallel job that use borrowed resources to allow PEND jobs with guarantees to go running

We hare 3 queues.All queues have same priority.Each queue has a GRP SLA (guarantee).All queues are setup such that each queue loans out it guarantees to the other 2 queues when not used. In customer environment is often the case that 1 queue goes ...
almost 9 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Not under consideration

RTM: Have automation run serially per cluster and license device

to avoid devices update conflict and server perf degradation, serialize license services and LSF clusters update (mainly when update frequency is set to a day). should by linked with RFE 72419.
almost 9 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Not under consideration

RTM: Add automation option to perform license & cluster devices automation after maintenance

when "Add Graph Frequency" of LSF clusters or License services are set to a day, is it possible to schedule the add graph process (devices update) at the end of the maintenance window. should be linked to RFE 72420
almost 9 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Not under consideration

PAC integration with IBM license scheduler

If you turn on #ENABLE_LS_GUI=YIt will show license data in PAC. This is good. You should be able to integrate that data into a template as a field.
almost 9 years ago in Spectrum LSF 3 Not under consideration