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Search results: Spectrum LSF

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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...
over 7 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 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

Extend time period that historical run time is tracked for fairshare

We use historical run time as the main component of fairshare to determine job priority and ensure that users receive the appropriate amount of run time on our clusters. The current behavior in LSF with respect to historical run time is that any t...
over 6 years ago in Spectrum LSF 0 Delivered

customize PAC 10.2

1)应用中心: a)用户体验至少要和我们一期PAC 9 一样。 b)Citrix集成部分需要添加注销功能:用户注销PAC时,同时注销Citrix。(这个功能一期PAC 9已经实现) c)介绍下集成方法,以方便我们后续微调。 2)文件浏览权限:限制用户通过PAC浏览整个根文件系统,使得用户通过PAC只能浏览自己HOME下的文件。(此功能一期PAC 9 也已经实现) a)PAC默认可以通过以下按钮浏览整个根文件系统:需要修改下代码限制用户只能访问自己的HOME b)PAC 10.1新添加Dat...
almost 8 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

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

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

LSF needs to Support nvidia-docker using the new docker design

LSF currently supports CONTAINERS from: 1) Docker2) Singularity3) Shifter Many customers in the deep learning space are using nvidia-docker and the nvidia toolsets and containers. Therefore, for customers wishing to perform deep learning on LSF, t...
over 8 years ago in Spectrum LSF 0 Delivered

LSF automatically delete groups even when Limits exist

According to documentation:"Automatic job group cleanupWhen an implicitly created job group becomes empty, it can be automatically deleted by LSF. Job groups that can be automatically deleted cannot:1. Have limits that are specified including thei...
over 8 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Delivered