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Search results: Spectrum LSF

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Set license ownership per user

All users are assured one (1) license for interactive work. Customer has 100s of users. So, it is not practical to define each user as a leaf in a ProjectGroup.
4 months ago in Spectrum LSF / License Management 0 Future consideration

Implement initial memory reservation and res_req in jobInfoEnt structure

Hello, We can get initial memory reservation and initial res_req using bhist command but it can take a while.I have noticed that initial number of reserved CPUs is recorded in /sw/platform/lsf/10.1/include/lsf/lsbatch.h /*** \brief submit request ...
4 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Operations/RTM 0 Future consideration

Do not start jobs with less than X cores per host

It is useful for when ptiles or slots do not fulfill your needs. Using an example, we have an MPI code that requests 100 cores. We don't tell LSF how to grab those cores, and sometimes it will go out and span across 12 nodes, taking 19 cores on on...
5 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 0 Future consideration

job select statement improvement

I have hosts with exclusive resources and some with a dynamic resource. A few hosts have two exclusive resources. The job submit: $ bsub -R 'select[ defined(res1) || (defined(res2) && dynamic_pool==loaner_host)]' I would expect this job to...
about 3 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 2 Future consideration

Allow Flagging Jobs for Reservation Through Rules and/or Through a "bsub --plan" Option

Today, reservations in LSF are handled by the Top X jobs by ordered by Dynamic Priority using the variable MAX_JOB_RESERVE. We believe that this is a shotgun approach. We have millions of jobs a day that require 1 cores and less than 1GB of memory...
about 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 0 Future consideration

Forward, without local processing, bsub options to remote clusters

In multi-cluster scenarios, there should be no expectation that all the clusters are configured the same and/or support the same resources, slas, architectures, etc. Currently, when launching jobs with -sla, -m, and other options, the local schedu...
11 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Cloud Bursting 1 Future consideration

bhosts and lshosts should have an option to let them perform more like the scheduler

Currently, if I have a host with two exclusive resources in the lsf.cluster file <hostname> <model> <type> 1 () () () (!res1 !res2) If I run the following bhosts command, it acts like "grep" instead of like the scheduler, and rep...
about 3 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 0 Future consideration

Split License Scheduler log files

License Scheduler does not have the function to split log files(bld.log and blcollect.log). Could you please add a function to split the log file as below? bld.log.hostname bld.log.hostname.1 bld.log.hostname.2 bld.log.hostname.3 blcolle...
over 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 0 Future consideration

Add a 'bsub -Gl limit_name' option to separate Fairshare Assignment from the Limit also add a default limit pattern to use if ONE_UG_TREE does not find a matching limit

We have many cases, where we have limits for users, but we also want to want to apply a fairshare group for the job to arrive at a base allocation. Unfortunately, with ONE_UG enabled, if the Fairshare Group does not have a corresponding Limit, not...
over 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 0 Future consideration

Affinity support for windows compute servers

We have a mixed Linux/Windows cluster. Unfortunately the affinity string in the resource requirement is not supported on Windows. This leads to several problems: 1. jobs with affinity settings will not be dispatched to windows nodes 2. less perfor...
about 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 1 Future consideration