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Search results: Spectrum LSF

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LSF to preempt tasks in a running parallel job that use borrowed resources to allow PEND jobs with guarantees to go running

We hare 3 queues.All queues have same priority.Each queue has a GRP SLA (guarantee).All queues are setup such that each queue loans out it guarantees to the other 2 queues when not used. In customer environment is often the case that 1 queue goes ...
over 10 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Not under consideration

many jobs pend due to "Just started a job recently".

1. the candidate hosts are sorted by CPU load; 2. do not dispatch jobs in a "pack" fashion, instead, "balance" fashion.
over 10 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Delivered

Support resizable jobs for compound resource requests (RES_REQ) using blaunch (parallel jobs)

A job that has compound resources cannot be resized - why?=============================================== We use blaunch to launch jobs with the following resource requirements. Begin ApplicationNAME = core8DESCRIPTION = applications that need 1 H...
over 10 years ago in Spectrum LSF 3 Delivered

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

Jobs that get into PSUSP state because they reached MAX_JOB_REQUEUE cannot be killed by an appropriate JOB_CONTROL mechanism

Answer from PMR: For the PSUSP jobs JOB_CONTROL can not work on PSUSP job. We have checked the source code in these days and found that 1. LSF doesn't set any environment variable when a job reaches its requeue limit and be put into PSUSP status 2...
about 8 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Delivered

Prevention of Spectrum LSF over-preemption

The current LSF preemption design does not prevent over-preemption (i.e. preempt more jobs than needed). When the preemption of a large low job takes some time like several minutes, the following incoming high priority jobs could preempt other run...
over 5 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 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

Take job size into account in historical run_time

LSF's fairshare includes a RUN_TIME parameter that can track the total time accumulated by a user / group's completed jobs. By weighting this parameter, a user's historic jobs can be accounted for in determining their job priority. This factor doe...
over 5 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Delivered

Create a User Interace and Process flow for API Key Generation, Approval, Use, and Revocation

We presently are evaluating Application Center's Web Services for job submission and control. However, many of our submission users are robots where the password is not known to user, but rather the users have sudo authority to submit jobs from sp...
about 3 years ago in Spectrum LSF / End User UI/Applicaton Center 1 Not under consideration

[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...
about 9 years ago in Spectrum LSF 4 Delivered

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