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Search results: Spectrum LSF

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Fairshare dynamic priority to use job count instead of job slots

The fairshare formula uses job_slots with RUN_JOB_FACTOR. Looking to have a formula that uses a job_count that represents only the number of jobs (excluding the slots or tasks requested per job). A scenario for this is when a queue is set up to ...
almost 4 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 1 Delivered

Two Design Flaws in Run Limit Reporting in RTM

Currently in RTM, there two design gaps in the RunLimit features. They are: 1) No way to exclude queues such as 'short' 2) Emails are sent one at a time, which in our case results in 77k emails sent randomly. It would be better to 'consolidate' Em...
almost 4 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Operations/RTM 1 Not under consideration

Fix systemd unit file created by hostsetup to allow MPI jobs to use RDMA

In response to RFE #89685, requesting the creation and use of a systemd unit file, the fix 432732. The fix modified hostsetup to create the unit file, below, and register the lsfd service. [Unit]Description=IBM Spectrum LSFAfter=network.target nfs...
over 8 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Delivered

LSF Complementations in Delaying LDAP Responses

As we know, badmin reconfig checks whether an invalid user is set in lsb.users.But if an LDAP response is very delayed, LSF can only continue to wait for this.LSF does not have a function to reduce the username resolution time, and LSF does not lo...
over 4 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Delivered

Requesting for blstat -o

The output of blstat -t and blinfo -G is not easy to parse. We'd like to see LS information as blow. FEATURE SERVICE_DOMAIN TOTAL_INUSE TOTAL_RESERVE TOTAL_FREE OTHERS PROJECT SHARE OWN INUSE RESERVE FREE DEMAND sxe sxSD 126 0 102 72 sx_mem 65.5 %...
almost 9 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Delivered

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

RTM: hosts unreachable for scheduling constraints

when an exec server is not eligible for a scheduling constrainte ("just starting a job recently" for ex), there nothing to monitor that situation. the only way is to detect that situation is to do a bjobs -lp on a pending job pending for that reas...
about 9 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