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Search results: Spectrum LSF

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Group jobs to same cluster when using bsub -cluster feature

Goal: Group together lsf jobs, "regression", in such a way that bsub -cluster feature directs all jobs in the group to the same cluster. Proposal: a) bsub submits all jobs in a job array to a single cluster bsub -cluster all -J "ArrayName[1-10]" /...
over 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 1 Delivered

Array job maximum running jobs should be honored across multiclustered environments

Our users submit array jobs, but due to many factors may want to limit the number of running tasks at a time, not only from the source cluster, but total running jobs of that array for all clusters involved ( we have many clusters that use multicl...
over 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 0 Delivered

Issue with data purging : Wastage of vertica license

As discussed in the PMR, due to bad design of data purging in PA 9, there are two issues 1. Wastage of vertica license i.e. at times data is retained in the DB even beyond data retention period defined in SYS_tables_to_parition. 2. PA admin has no...
about 10 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Delivered

Run LSF file IO operations within the container.

LSF jobs using containers depend on mounts within the container. These mounts are not available on bare metal where LSF runs file operations. The bare metal dependency means that LSF file related operations, -o, -f, -E, -Ep, etc. will not have acc...
over 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 1 Delivered

Adjustable Number of MPS Daemons for GPU Sharing

For now, IBM Spectrum LSF allows automatically instantiating one single MPS Daemon when requested through the '-gpu' directive:---gpu 'mps=yes:[...]'-- However, it has proved beneficial in several performance benchmarks conducted on different clie...
over 6 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Delivered

Job reached run limit & get kill , user need notification 48 hr /24 hr /12 hr before LSF kill job

Job reached run limit & get kill , user need notification 48 hr /24 hr /12 hr before LSF kill job can we talk on this. It seems user get notification only XX min before kill ie customer number Today in RTM we have only 1 option say select % bu...
over 5 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Delivered

LSF enforced limits

LSF currently inherits the environment (limits) from the system when the LSF Daemons are started, and doesn't compensate based on whether the LSF daemons are started by process 1 (init) or by root. If LSF is configured to startup as part of the sy...
over 10 years ago in Spectrum LSF 3 Delivered

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...
about 7 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Delivered

Prevent LSF from dispatching jobs to problematic hosts consistently

Some jobs are dispatched to a host and failed because the communication between MBATCHD and SBATCHD is failed. The host keeps in OK status and the jobs keep dispatching to the host, which makes the job can not run for a long time. The communicatio...
over 9 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Delivered

many jobs pend due to "Just started a job recently".

1. the candidate hosts are sorted by CPU load; 2. do not dispatch jobs in a "pack" fashion, instead, "balance" fashion.
about 10 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Delivered