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command-level job starters should work with bsub

According to https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/spectrum-lsf/10.1.0?topic=starters-about-job command-level job starters (using LSF_JOB_STARTER env variable) do not work Are user-defined. They run interactive jobs submitted using lsrun, lsgrun, or ch. Com...
about 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 5 Is a defect

job resource usage correction

My developers always submit distributed jobs to the cluster, when their jobs ends with OOM error in one of the nodes, bjobs or bacct commands find that the job's memory usage is incorrect. For example , in server's '/var/log/message' we can see th...
over 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Reporting/Explorer 0 Future consideration

support queue level container parameters

We need to be able to use the EXEC_DRIVER mechanisms in a way beyond bapp, as there is only one bapp allowed in a job submission. Many of our automated (and locked) job flows already request a bapp, so they cannot use another bapp.
almost 7 years ago in Spectrum LSF 3 Delivered

Enable option for hardcoding GPU memory request like its available for CPU memory request

At this moment IBM offers features of hardcoding CPU memory. We have implemented this feature in our cluster with esub scripting. Similarly we want to have same feature available for GPU memmory (gmem) to be hardcoded. I have raised ticket to our ...
over 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 2 Not under consideration

To enable increase in the memory for a job when overall memory resource limit is in place in lsb.resources

Case#Case number TS001621460 can be referred for this RFE. Explanation was: I have discussed with development team again, currently, LSF can not satisfy the increase memory request by bmod command for a running job when there is a general limit de...
almost 7 years ago in Spectrum LSF 0 Not under consideration

Enable changing default credentials in RBAC-database configuration

When using LSF Explorer with Role Based Access Control (RBAC) it is required to setup an additional database. The default username/password combination is pacuser:pacuser. It is stored as a hashed value under lsfsuite/ext/explorer/server/rbac/data...
over 4 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Delivered

Extend SessionScheduler being able to manage small parallel application (size up to one node)

Today we have applications/software running in serial mode via session scheduler (runtime per task <<10min) with up to 10000 tasks. These applications/software will migrate to parallel usage soon and we want to keep the SessionScheduler func...
over 4 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Delivered

Add lsb.params setting to limit the number of times a job can be redispatched upon either a pre-exec failure of job initilization failure

We currently have jobs that will bounce from host to host either based upon a pre-exec failure, or a job initialization failure. This can impact > 500 hosts and cause an increase in MBD memory use. It would be nice to have a setting such as: MA...
about 3 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 0 Delivered

New age patchinstall tool

With IBM moved away from Quarterly fixpacks to Yearly release – we often see bunch of patches for install as backlog. Current patchinstall tool does this job efficiently for a single patch and if I’ve to install 5 patches on top of a fixpack (inde...
over 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 1 Future consideration

Multiple queues request for job - consider taking in account queue limitations and lsf.resources for better job dispatching.

Today, when we submit a job with multiple queues (bsub "high risk") The job will be dispatched to a relevant queue by examine parameters such as queue status(open/closed), queue hosts, time-limit. In a situation, where a queue "high" have a ujob_l...
over 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 1 Not under consideration