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Search results: Spectrum LSF

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Add the Linux PAM support in LSF

Dear all, we have several applications unable to work properly when they are executed by launching Vnc jobs. We receive several dbus and dconf error messages which can be traced back to the fact that the directory /run/user/$uid isn’t found. This ...
10 months ago in Spectrum LSF / End User UI/Applicaton Center 2 Not under consideration

LSF to control SSH sessions on hosts running LSF jobs

We have many users who need to open an SSH session from their IDE ( VSCode, PyCharm) to a cluster machine running their LSF job so they can debug/troubleshoot/test in realtime in an interactive session. While battach works to connect to a cluster ...
over 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 3 Future consideration

About /run/user/$uid

Could you please make "/run/user/$uid" the same for both ssh and interactive jobs? when user logon the host, /run/user/$uid is created by pam_systemd and used for storing files used by running processes for that user. When a user logs out, a...
over 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 3 Not under consideration

Connect to existing Docker Job to get inside Container

Ability for a User to connect or attach to existing none interactive Job from terminal, that User schedule by bsub, to get access inside Docker Container.This is to be able to troubleshoot from inside running Docker Container. This is critical fea...
over 6 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Delivered

LSF to track SSH and child processes on machines running LSF jobs

To prevent users from sshing into nodes that they do not have a running job on, to restrict the SSH session to the resources that the runing job has on the machine (e.g. cgroups ), to track the ssh connection and any other spawned processes for ac...
over 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 0 Future consideration

Prevent non-LSF users from running computing jobs on hosts

The customer would like LSF to include a functionality, where LSF prevents non-LSF users from accessing an LSF host's computing resources. This includes even access via rsh, ssh, or similar methods alike. The purpose of this function is so that LS...
over 4 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Delivered

Trapping user SSH session to the cgroup a user's LSF job is associated with

* A user has a job on a LSF server* A user SSH into the LSF server* The user SSH session is put into the cgroup of the user's LSF job. The result is any activity and resource usage (CPU/memory) by the user is recorded as part of their LSF job (thr...
about 5 years ago in Spectrum LSF 3 Delivered

one to many job mapping

-- the job submission user needs be one particular user, -- the job execution user should be mapped to various users. In order for LSF to support such use case, an enhancement is to add 1) a new bsub option to specify the job execution user 2) a n...
over 5 years ago in Spectrum LSF 5 Delivered

Availability of direct communication to the mbatch daemon from programming interface

In our own pam module we use the function lsb_openjobinfo to identify if a user has a running job on the node or not. We do this to decide if the user can establish a connection to the node (usually the ssh connection at the beginning of a job). U...
over 6 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Delivered

LSF LIM needs better support for Intel Xeon-Phi based compute systems

LSF lim uses up far more computation time on a Xeon Phi self-booting system than it does on standard Xeon nodes. Here is an example. After 5 days (update time set to 60s) on the Xeon Phi ekl001 over 300 min have piled up, while the standard Xeon s...
over 9 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Delivered