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Search results: Spectrum LSF

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LSF enforced limits

LSF currently inherits the environment (limits) from the system when the LSF Daemons are started, and doesn't compensate based on whether the LSF daemons are started by process 1 (init) or by root. If LSF is configured to startup as part of the sy...
over 10 years ago in Spectrum LSF 3 Delivered

Use all applicable NUMA Memory information on a machine to determine available Memory resources before dispatching a job to a machine

We were noticing that jobs were being terminated by LSF with the message: TERM_MEMLIMIT: job killed after reaching LSF memory usage limit.Exited with exit code 137. Yet, this was happening before the job had even consumed the amount of memory rese...
about 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 0 Planned for future release

Improve existing ZOMBI handling with regards to both SBD and MBD process flows

It will reduce the persistence of ZOMBI jobs in LSF to a shorter time period. Here are the two areas that need improvement. 1) Currently, even though the SBD daemons may be running on a host, a job will remain in ZOMBI status until the SBD is rest...
about 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 0 Future consideration

install libnsl automatically during LSF installation

In RHEL8, I found the follows error. [root@rhel86 lsf]# lsadmin limstartup lsadmin: error while loading shared libraries: libnsl.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory And I found "Known issues" part in LSF guide ment...
about 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 1 Not under consideration

preemption

We're going to use the preemption through the following settings. Begin QueueQUEUE_NAME = test99PRIORITY = 99HOSTS = allPREEMPTION = PREEMPTIVE[test1]End Queue Begin QueueQUEUE_NAME = test1PRIORITY = 1HOSTS = allPREEMPTION = PREEMPTABLE[test99]TER...
over 6 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration

Improve Session Scheduler by Supporting Per Job Accounting File Location

Main Issue: Unable to define a user/job specific accounting file location. Discussion: There is a lsb.params variable for the session scheduler account directory. That’s well and good, but it’s not in a very accessible location. It would be better...
over 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 0 Future consideration

Enabling the Batch processing based on Compute Express Link CXL 3.0 or CXL 4.0 Fabrics

CXL 3.0 is built upon the IBM OpenCAPI, but CXL3 and CXL 4 have more speeds and will achieve the following: 1- Enabling the Interconnection between IBM LinuxONE and Exa scale AI Data Centers based on Nvidia DGX H100 based on Nvidia H100 GPUs and I...
over 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Other 1 Not under consideration

Provide Option to Automatically Pull and Prune Containers from Exec Hosts

Currently LSF allows defining of an application profile to pull images selectively based upon configuration. However there is now way to provide pre-staging of images, and pruning of under utilized images. The customer would like support similar t...
about 7 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Delivered

Prevent LSF from dispatching jobs to problematic hosts consistently

Some jobs are dispatched to a host and failed because the communication between MBATCHD and SBATCHD is failed. The host keeps in OK status and the jobs keep dispatching to the host, which makes the job can not run for a long time. The communicatio...
over 9 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Delivered

Improving job status problem due to defunct process

Sometimes, defunct can occur in job processes for a variety of reasons. For example, 29460 below is one of the processes of some job. ps -ef | grep bg92 bg92.pa+ 29460 1 1 2022 ? 08:03:02 [Novas] <defunct> And if a defunct process occurs, L...
over 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 2 Not under consideration