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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

Extend time period that historical run time is tracked for fairshare

We use historical run time as the main component of fairshare to determine job priority and ensure that users receive the appropriate amount of run time on our clusters. The current behavior in LSF with respect to historical run time is that any t...
over 6 years ago in Spectrum LSF 0 Delivered

cleanup of Old LOAD_INDEX records from lsb.events

The investigation indicates that LOAD_INDEX record is written to lsb.events when there is change (addition/deletion) in load indices. The records are not automatically cleaned and have no impact to performance unless there are a quite a lot of the...
over 6 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration

RTM License Accounting by Token Cost, not Monthly Total Cost

The new License Accounting feature could be extremely useful. This concept was presented to us by Larry Adams, Cacti Architect. Currently, you can define an 'application' and a monthly cost for whatever licenses are associated with that applicatio...
almost 7 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration

Automatic server's OS version update

Computing power become faster and faster and customers want to get the result from computing service. So sometimes, customers buy new computer server and add them to LSF cluster. But every time, computer server's OS is different version. Additiona...
over 7 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Delivered

Can blstat add one more column showing pending jobs

If LSF_LIC_SCHD_RSV_FOR_PEND_JOB=Y in lsf.conf, license demand is from all pending jobs no matter pending reason.If do not set LSF_LIC_SCHD_RSV_FOR_PEND_JOB in lsf.conf, license demand is from pending jobs with pending reason related license.But b...
almost 8 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration

Custom LSF plugin call back required for bmod

For a customised LSF scheduler plugin library, a pending LSF job, when modified through bmod, doesn't show the same through any specific functioncalls inside the plugin. Only calls which come up areregistered NewJob() calls. However, these appearw...
almost 8 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Not under consideration

change job status for recalled jobs

In multi-cluster environment while using load balancing between multiple cluster, jobs gets recalled to submission cluster due MAX_RSCHED_TIME. These jobs show as exited jobs from execution cluster. GM tracks metrics for exited jobs monthly and th...
over 9 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration