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Search results: Spectrum LSF

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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...
over 3 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 0 Future consideration

Adjust the priority of pending reason

If both license lack and limit(SLOTS, JOBS) reach together, the job pending reason shows license reason ONLY, not include limit. We want to adjust the priority of pending reason "limit(SLOTS, JOBS)" related pending reason is requested as high ...
almost 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 1 Not under consideration

Fix systemd unit file created by hostsetup to allow MPI jobs to use RDMA

In response to RFE #89685, requesting the creation and use of a systemd unit file, the fix 432732. The fix modified hostsetup to create the unit file, below, and register the lsfd service. [Unit]Description=IBM Spectrum LSFAfter=network.target nfs...
over 8 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 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

PAC - Add an indicator of job health to the Workload page

We need a metric displayed on the Workload page that tells the user the job is actually using CPU time and running correctly. Of course we have the job status (pend, run, susp, psusp, etc.) but this doesn't tell us if the processes are using CPU t...
about 7 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Delivered

Removing resource usage and batch job information from job output

By default, the batch job and resource summary are added to each batch job's output. We would like the ability to either select the information added to the output, or the ability to disable this feature. The following is an example of the informa...
almost 9 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Delivered