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Search results: Spectrum LSF

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Better way of handling Azure authentication in the Resource connector

Currently, the only method of authentication in the resource connector involves storing the credentials in a credential file, specifically in the LSF AZURE_CREDENTIALS_FILE parameter within the Azure configuration file. However, storing credential...
7 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Cloud Bursting 2 Delivered

allow to limit cpu usage to the number of slots requested

Hello,, currently, when a user submit a job, there's no way in LSF to limit the cpu consumption. recently, we discover that it's possible to limit cpu usage OS side using cgroup, by putting a value in the 'cpu.cfs_quota_us' file of the '/sys/fs/...
almost 3 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 2 Delivered

json output for "badmin lsfproxyd status"

The new solution LSFProxyd does not dump status in json file. This RFE is to enable json output of "badmin lsfproxyd status" command.
about 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 1 Delivered

lsf proxyd logging in log file

From the documentations, it seems LSF proxyd is currently showing its logs from perfmon view style of command and this RFE is to enable lsf proxyd logging same as other daemons are logging currently. e.g. mbatchd.log, mbschd.log.. similarly we sho...
over 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 1 Delivered

LSF integration with latest DCGM

LSF provides integration with DCGM so that GPU usage data can be collected in lsb.acct log file. However, the latest LSF only supports DCGM v1.7.2, which goes with CUDA10.For customs like us, we used CUDA11, which needs DCGM v2.1.4, and we would l...
over 4 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Delivered

Enable 'include' function to reduce lsb.* file complexity

We have very huge user group (due to hierarchical fairshare) configurations in lsb.users that are generated by tools, and would like to use something like an include statement to add them to the main file.
almost 8 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Delivered

Enable changing default credentials in RBAC-database configuration

When using LSF Explorer with Role Based Access Control (RBAC) it is required to setup an additional database. The default username/password combination is pacuser:pacuser. It is stored as a hashed value under lsfsuite/ext/explorer/server/rbac/data...
over 4 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Delivered

Data mover: option for "bstage in -all" to preserve source directory structure

"bstage in -all" copies all source files into the job working directory, ignoring the source directory structure. We would like to have the option to preserve the directory structure of the source files when transferred, for example using an addit...
about 9 years ago in Spectrum LSF 0 Delivered

allow lsb.stream files to use data from already existing lsb.acct

If the lsb.stream file not generated or has been removed, LSF Explorer can't load the job data into ES. Currently LSF Explorer doesn't have the functionality to load the data from lsb.acct files, but it is possible to re-generate lsb.stream file b...
over 7 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...
almost 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 1 Delivered