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Search results: Spectrum LSF

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CPU Affinity and Restricting LSF jobs

I am launching jobs on a two socket server each with fourteen cores. Job 1 is using core1/socket1 and job 2 is using core2/socket2 each in exclusive mode. Since both sockets are being used in exclusive mode and since both sockets are in use no add...
almost 9 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Delivered

mbatch hang/bsub hang issue caused by slowly resolution

We have experienced the following issues. For more information, please refer to case number TS005350597.If any DNS issue happens, egroup resolution is very slow and mbatchd waits for egroup. egroup resolution slow -> mbatchd wait for egroup -&g...
over 4 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Not under consideration

Enhance Processor Affinity Management in Platform LSF To Address All Classical Execution Configurations for HPC Workloads

On behalf of our client, I have investigated the proper way to set the Platform LSF Affinity String ("-R affinity") in order to handle the standard execution configurations of their scientific applications. By "execution configurations", I mean th...
over 9 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Delivered

Increase LSF Explorer auto log out time value

We are using LSF Explorer 10.2.0.9, while running queries for data older than 3-4 weeks which takes more time LSF Explorer auto logs out(300 seconds) while the query is still running in the background. In TS003951590 the concerned IBM support pers...
almost 5 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Reporting/Explorer 0 Delivered

one to many job mapping

-- the job submission user needs be one particular user, -- the job execution user should be mapped to various users. In order for LSF to support such use case, an enhancement is to add 1) a new bsub option to specify the job execution user 2) a n...
over 5 years ago in Spectrum LSF 5 Delivered

Restrict application license usage on a per user basis - cross cluster

Provide the ability to configure a per user limit for application licenses. Once a user reaches this limit no additional workload can be executed which would result in additional licenses being consumed. The limit would include licenses consumed b...
over 7 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration

If a specific user logs in, is there any information about the specified cluster?

When user A logs in, I want to show information about cluster 1 only.(cluseter 1 all information, but can not setting ) If user B logs in, I want to show cluster 3 only.(cluseter 3 all information, but can not setting ) Can it show only informatio...
almost 8 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration

job dependency on requeable job.

Hi, We are working on a workflow enhancement but are facing a potential issue with how LSF handles job dependencies of requeable jobs. Here is the scenario: - there is JOBARRAY[1-10] - there is "sync" job (single) which is dependent on ended(JOBAR...
over 8 years ago in Spectrum LSF 3 Not under consideration

LSF needs to Support nvidia-docker using the new docker design

LSF currently supports CONTAINERS from: 1) Docker2) Singularity3) Shifter Many customers in the deep learning space are using nvidia-docker and the nvidia toolsets and containers. Therefore, for customers wishing to perform deep learning on LSF, t...
over 8 years ago in Spectrum LSF 0 Delivered

Enhancements for "hostsetup"

hostsetup script should be enhanced in the following ways:1) Naming of the startup scripts for SysV init and systemd should be consistent.2) Script should provide option for installing /etc/lsf.sudoers.3) Script should detect /etc/sudoers is prese...
over 8 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration