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RTM License Accounting by Token Cost, not Monthly Total Cost

The new License Accounting feature could be extremely useful. This concept was presented to us by Larry Adams, Cacti Architect. Currently, you can define an 'application' and a monthly cost for whatever licenses are associated with that applicatio...
about 7 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration

Ability to specify cores or exclusive host for Benchmark job

Currently all benchmark jobs submitted via RTM use 1 core. Also, one cannot specify node to be exclusively used via bsub -x. This allows other jobs to land on same node and thus tainting benchmark numbers
over 3 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Operations/RTM 0 Delivered

Automatic server's OS version update

Computing power become faster and faster and customers want to get the result from computing service. So sometimes, customers buy new computer server and add them to LSF cluster. But every time, computer server's OS is different version. Additiona...
over 7 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 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

New chart to plot actual usage and total available capacity aggregated by project or queue or user against time.

Actual versus Capacity Client has requested a new chart. This chart would plot actual usage and total available capacity aggregated by project or queue or user against time. The following measures would be available:  • total job run tim...
over 7 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration

Can blstat add one more column showing pending jobs

If LSF_LIC_SCHD_RSV_FOR_PEND_JOB=Y in lsf.conf, license demand is from all pending jobs no matter pending reason.If do not set LSF_LIC_SCHD_RSV_FOR_PEND_JOB in lsf.conf, license demand is from pending jobs with pending reason related license.But b...
almost 8 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration

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...
about 4 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Operations/RTM 1 Not under consideration

LSF Resource connector should select template for minimum number of servers

LSF Resource connector selects the template based on the resources and priority defined in the configuration file. This is good approach for a single job. However, when there are multiple jobs (which is the case mostly), this approach is not suita...
about 4 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Cloud Bursting 2 Delivered

Show number of requested slots for pending jobs in bjobs output

The main unit for jobs in our setup is cores, i.e. one slot correspond to one core. For jobs that use affinity, e.g. hybrid MPI-OpenMP jobs, the number of slots for pending jobs only shows the slots given with the '-n' option of bsub, i.e. the num...
over 8 years ago in Spectrum LSF 6 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