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Search results: Spectrum LSF

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Request ability to set the path to lmutil in Platform Analytics

Request the ability to set the path to lmutil in Platform Analytics for the flexlicusageloader data loader by setting a configuration parameter in flexlicusage.properties. This would make PA consistent with the LSF License Scheduler where the path...
almost 8 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 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...
almost 11 years ago in Spectrum LSF 3 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...
almost 10 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Delivered

Consistent bjobs time format

The time fields that bjobs offers should report in a consistent hh:mm:ss format. While many of our users are math majors, not all of them are adept at converting seconds to hours:minutes:seconds in their head.
almost 9 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Delivered

HA configuration of Node server for db connection

It's about DCH in PA.I'd like to add a new DB connection host as a fail-over one, like EXEC_HOST in wsm_plc.conf. For the platform analytics, it's using vertica.And vertica db consists of some nodes. Let's suppose we have four nodes. DCH host is l...
almost 9 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Delivered

Affinity is not consistent with tasks and slot allocation

We have defined a default affinity configuration at queue level to map one slot to one core: "affinity[core(1)]". However, if user submits a job allocating more than one core per task, bsub -n 1 -R "affinity[core(4)]" for instance, the slot-based ...
almost 10 years ago in Spectrum LSF 3 Delivered