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Search results: Spectrum LSF

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[clearcase] bjobs and bsub should provide reason why job did not start on exec host

We use Platform LSF 9.1 in conjunction with ClearCase. In situations where CC is not working on the execution host, LSF provides a misleading message (a bug) as well as insufficient information to determine that the execution host has a problem. S...
over 9 years ago in Spectrum LSF 4 Delivered

LSF Explorer installation permission issue

The default permissions with which Explorer server and embedded Elasticsearch is installed is hard coded to lsfadmin user and root group even after keep another user install.config. We want that the install area ownership to a user other than lsfa...
over 6 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration

Extend time period that historical run time is tracked for fairshare

We use historical run time as the main component of fairshare to determine job priority and ensure that users receive the appropriate amount of run time on our clusters. The current behavior in LSF with respect to historical run time is that any t...
over 6 years ago in Spectrum LSF 0 Delivered

change in the way graceful exits are handled/reported

When LSF sends kill signal to job, based on the time job takes to complete, it sometimes return "0" exit code and sometimes non-zero. This leads to diff message being return by LSF commands. In this RFE I would like to address ::1. What exit code ...
over 6 years ago in Spectrum LSF 3 Not under consideration

Set more job variables in parent SBATCHD prior to forking the job SBATCHD/RES

I've been working with the Daemons Wrap source code trying to make the logging more presentable, and I've come accross a hurdle to effectively enhancing that integration. I need both the Job Start and Submit Times, and normally, I would just be ab...
over 3 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 1 Not under consideration

Relax GPU affinity while maintaining Core affinity

Prior to the introduction of the LSB_GPU_NEW_SYNTAX=extend it was possible to have jobs using core affinity and be assigned to cores on a cpu that is not directly connected to the gpu that was assigned to the job. After the introduction it will al...
almost 7 years ago in Spectrum LSF 3 Delivered

Accouting lsf : problem with max memory

Wen Chao MH Hao asked me to create a RFE for a bug in the accounting lsf.We have a hot-fix to calculate the maxRMem to a correct value when the value exceeds a value (put to 0). But we don't have anything when the value is negative. From: Wen Chao...
about 7 years ago in Spectrum LSF 0 Delivered

[FP7] [Airbus] I want the PPM to accept parameters when using the job script definition

When using a JobScript Symbol and providing the file Name to call one can not provide any Parameter for this script.PPM Exits with a return Code of 127 and the Job is not submitted.If one provides a script without any Parameter this works just fine.
over 7 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Delivered

fairshare policy within a leaf node of fairshare tree based on application type or project or user

Fairshare applies to the leaf level project code (user group) and within a user the jobs are dispatched on the order in which they are submitted . The order can be altered by changing the priority using "-sp" butt his allows only to specify array3...
almost 8 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration

TERM_ORPHAN_SYSTEM or "-ti" bsub option not killing all orphaned jobs

The customer is expecting LSF to distinguish job killed when pending (NEVER_RUN) and job killed after started. A job cannot be treated as "exited" if cancelled while pending. exit/exit status/exit code are for a running process.In LL, job has a st...
about 11 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Delivered