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Search results: Spectrum LSF

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Removing resource usage and batch job information from job output

By default, the batch job and resource summary are added to each batch job's output. We would like the ability to either select the information added to the output, or the ability to disable this feature. The following is an example of the informa...
almost 9 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Delivered

Displays value of LIMITS in blstat

Here is the output of blstat. [root@vlm1 conf]# blstatFEATURE: lic1 SERVICE_DOMAIN: LanServer TOTAL_INUSE: 0 TOTAL_RESERVE: 0 TOTAL_FREE: 10 OTHERS: 0 PROJECT SHARE OWN INUSE RESERVE FREE DEMAND 44 32.8 % 0 0 0 2 0 default 25.0 % 0 0 0 3 0 33 17.2...
almost 9 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Delivered

Enlarge the MAX_CONCURRENT_JOB_QUERY limit

The current MAX_CONCURRENT_QUERY parameter in LSF is only tuneable in the range of 1-100, or unlimited. As our large environment has many users submitting a lot of LSF query commands, users easily hit the 100 limit and getting retry. Since if this...
about 9 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Delivered

To enable PA9.1.2 to use oracle as FNM database

We are planning to enable FNM with PA9 and would like to use oracle as FNM database. We understand that currently PA9 support only MS SQL as FNM database however we are planning to implement oracle as FNM database due to following reasons : 1. ST ...
about 9 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Delivered

Improve speed of sourcing for LSF environment

There's ways to reduce the time of sourcing for LSF environment. If we use "grep -F" in the cshrc.lsf, it may give some performance gain.Exactly line 181set LIBC_SO=`ldconfig -p | grep libc.so.6 | sed 's/.*=>//'` This may depends on the load of...
about 9 years ago in Spectrum LSF 3 Delivered

lsb_hostinfo

Add additional field to show Total CPU per host and Total CPU in use per host. Currently sees the number of "tasks". Our real issue is we have started using a combination of OpenMP/MPI for some of our users jobs. When running a standard OpenMP or ...
over 9 years ago in Spectrum LSF 3 Delivered

RTM Display distinct license checkout count

When displaying the license -> daily stats, it would be clearer if the output showed the number of distinct checkout license so that it would not be all summed into one result. Otherwise it is confusing that a user has a check out time of 20 da...
over 9 years ago in Spectrum LSF 3 Not under consideration

Affinity is not consistent with tasks and slot allocation

We have defined a default affinity configuration at queue level to map one slot to one core: "affinity[core(1)]". However, if user submits a job allocating more than one core per task, bsub -n 1 -R "affinity[core(4)]" for instance, the slot-based ...
almost 10 years ago in Spectrum LSF 3 Delivered

LSF preemption behavior to preempt more than 1 license resource

I am seeing an issue with LSF preemption behavior. I have license resources (vcs_lic and pcie_vip_lic) implemented in LSF. The preemptable queue has mix of jobs running some of them use vcs_lic only and others use vcs_lic and pcie_vip_lic license ...
almost 10 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Not under consideration

RTM: Need to provide 3 day floating window for idle jobs

To setup the Idle job floating window in RTM, it is missing 3 days. The selection proves 1, 2, 4 days only. Need to have 3 days item also
about 10 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Not under consideration