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Search results: Spectrum LSF

Improve lim -t assignment functionality.

Requesting enhancements to how LSF Parses and assigns host types for both x86 and POWER architectures with the lim -t command. Current behavior causes inconsistent cpuf values due to bogomips changes on x86 and insufficient CPU-model differentiati...
3 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Other Delivered

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...
about 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Cloud Bursting Delivered

Enable support for image gallery in Azure resource connector

Enable support for image gallery in Azure resource connector. Currently, it only supports managed images, which is an outdated method. Microsoft doesn't recommend this, and most current technologies don't support it. All new features, such as Arm6...
about 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Cloud Bursting Delivered

Keep in memory jobs killed over PTL (Pending Time Limit)

Hi, following suggestion in IBM support case. We see that jobs killed over PTL are immediately removed from LSF master memory so that even while a job ID was issued during submit, status check via bjobs/bhist does not find such job ID resulting in...
about 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Operations/RTM Delivered

Need PAC version supported by rhel 9.4 and higher.

We plan to roll out rhel9.4 and rhel9.5 onto our cluster in the coming days. So, we need the PAC version to be supported. Kindly help us in providing the respective PAC version which supports rhel 9.4 and higher.Right now latest version of PAC 10....
over 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Installation Delivered

When setting LSF_STRICT_CHECKING=N, an option is needed to suppress the warning messages during reconfig, ckconfig, or mbdrestart.

Customers hope to waive those relevant warning messages to avoid the management process.
over 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration Delivered

RTM License Scheduler Users dashboard to include demand rusage value

RTM License Scheduler Users dashboard currently has the demand rusage value set to 1 and does not reflect the actual demand from the job. It is not clear if the feature/resource demand would come from the job or an LS query, but currently the valu...
over 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Operations/RTM Delivered

RTM support for MySQL 8.4 LTS

RTM support for MySQL 8.4 LTS support along with support for 9.x when the first LTS version is available (for both on-prem and Azure)
over 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Operations/RTM Delivered

Improve bsub rejection messages for troubleshooting

Improve the error messages returned from bsub failiure. For example, provide the rusage string and potentially specified what is wrong with rusage. Here is current failure message: Error in rusage section. Job not submitted.
over 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling Delivered

Add job group filter to bhist

The ability to find job groups via bhist command after the jobs have been removed from memory.
over 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling Delivered