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Search results: Spectrum LSF

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Run LSF file IO operations within the container.

LSF jobs using containers depend on mounts within the container. These mounts are not available on bare metal where LSF runs file operations. The bare metal dependency means that LSF file related operations, -o, -f, -E, -Ep, etc. will not have acc...
over 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 1 Delivered

Correct on Design Flaw in Session Scheduler

Currently the Session Manager and Service Director operate in the same CGROUP on the first execution host which causes a race condition that if a task on the first execution host pushes the memory use above the memory limit (aka mem-eater process)...
over 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 1 Not under consideration

Adjustable Number of MPS Daemons for GPU Sharing

For now, IBM Spectrum LSF allows automatically instantiating one single MPS Daemon when requested through the '-gpu' directive:---gpu 'mps=yes:[...]'-- However, it has proved beneficial in several performance benchmarks conducted on different clie...
over 6 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Delivered

Adjust the priority of pending reason

If both license lack and limit(SLOTS, JOBS) reach together, the job pending reason shows license reason ONLY, not include limit. We want to adjust the priority of pending reason "limit(SLOTS, JOBS)" related pending reason is requested as high ...
over 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 1 Not under consideration

Reporting both host-based pending reason and main pending reason

"LSF does not support reporting both host-based pending reason and main pending reason (about license)." Let me provide a portion of the bsub statement from our case to exemplify the customer's dilemma. bsub -R "rusage[mem=3000.00:duration=1m,md_r...
over 3 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 1 Not under consideration

Provide Access to Job Buckets for Analysis

Currently RTM contains quite a bit of information on current cluster state, but it provides limited information about the state of the scheduler, what job buckets exists, and the dispatch rate from these various buckets. Create an interface that p...
over 3 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Operations/RTM 1 Not under consideration

LSF service protection for queries

Before I explain it,this feature request is very important to us because it affects the entire LSF service.If these features are provided, we believe that we can achieve higher safety for our LSF products. Suddenly there was a mbatchd load issue w...
over 5 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Not under consideration

Job reached run limit & get kill , user need notification 48 hr /24 hr /12 hr before LSF kill job

Job reached run limit & get kill , user need notification 48 hr /24 hr /12 hr before LSF kill job can we talk on this. It seems user get notification only XX min before kill ie customer number Today in RTM we have only 1 option say select % bu...
over 5 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Delivered

Affinity support for windows compute servers

We have a mixed Linux/Windows cluster. Unfortunately the affinity string in the resource requirement is not supported on Windows. This leads to several problems: 1. jobs with affinity settings will not be dispatched to windows nodes 2. less perfor...
about 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 1 Future consideration

Request 2 license features

Here are two users. A user : bsub -R "rusage[featureA=1:featureB=1]" -Lp defaultB user: bsub -R "rusage[featureA=1:featureB=1]" -Lp short When featureA has 1 free license in default project, and featureB has 1 free license in short project, this j...
about 6 years ago in Spectrum LSF 3 Not under consideration