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Search results: Spectrum LSF

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[more info] Split LSF_TMPDIR into 2 different parameters: job's TMPDIR and LSF daemons' working directory

Have 2 different parameters to specify:1) Job's temporary directory TMPDIR2) LSF daemons' working directory where they core dump in case of fail, or sbatchd creates the .XXX.fanout and the .XXX.sbd directories. At the moment, both aspects are affe...
over 10 years ago in Spectrum LSF 6 Delivered

Transfering free value to another project in LS immediately

< Condition > Let's suppose,- There are two prjects in LS, prj1 and prj2.- There are two license features, lic1 and lic2.- There are two free lic1 and many free lic2 are remained.- Between prj1 and prj2, SHARE mode, 50%:50%.So, for lic1, prj...
about 5 years ago in Spectrum LSF / License Management 2 Not under consideration

LSF: Improve load sync time between host & master scheduler

The current sync time between LSF scheduler running in a master host and another host is high. There is a out of sync time window wherein the load on a host is not in sync with a running job's memory requirements.Requesting to eliminate this out o...
over 5 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Delivered

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...
almost 11 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Delivered

show my data with curse

Hello:We want to send the results of the simulation data every 1 minute to the Explorer node, through which the data is displayed in a diagram.Thank you very much!
over 5 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration

one to many job mapping

-- the job submission user needs be one particular user, -- the job execution user should be mapped to various users. In order for LSF to support such use case, an enhancement is to add 1) a new bsub option to specify the job execution user 2) a n...
over 5 years ago in Spectrum LSF 5 Delivered

Add/modify GPU affinity options for LSF

The objective is to add to and modify the GPU affinity options that LSF makes available via bsub -gpu, as follows. 1. When a user requests NVIDIA MPS via a LSF bsub -gpu option, the default GPU affinity should be "off", meaning that LSF should set...
almost 6 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Delivered

If you open/tail one file, you cannot interact with the webpage until you close the file.

With version 10.xx.xx Spectrum LSF Application Center, if you open/tail one file (in the job details, you cannot interact with the webpage until you close the file and therefore cannot open more than 1 file; while with PAC 9.1.5, users were able t...
almost 6 years ago in Spectrum LSF 0 Delivered

License Scheduler needs global user limit

We have just purchased LSF and LicenseScheduler and have found that the LSched does not support/provide the capability of having (in either ClusterMode or ProjectMode) the possibility of a max user limit per over all clusters We need to say Featur...
almost 6 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Delivered

Limiting the query data size in LSF

We recently experienced problems with mbatchd due to the size of the query data. The following is IBM support team's comments. Based on query_info.log last Saturday, I saw many lines with same data size during 1 second. Each line indicates 1 query...
about 6 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration