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Search results: Spectrum LSF

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Allow user access tokens to have a lifetime similar to 'remember me' support industry best practice

Currently, we have robots that submit jobs using the Web Interface. The tokens expiration is currently static, and there is no API endpoint to determine the validity of the token which means that job submission and controls can fail randomly witho...
over 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / End User UI/Applicaton Center 0 Future consideration

INCLUDE directive for lsf.cluster file

Its great to have INCLUDE functionality added in LSF and we're using heavily in our multiple LSF clusters. Its makes it easy to manage many clusters for common config edits and keep the farms compliant. I am logging this RFE to extend this feature...
over 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 1 Planned for future release

Permission model for Dashboards and Reports

In our environment, a few different teams will make use of different reporting capabilities in LSF Explorer in different scopes. Therefore they will be creating different reports and dashboards. So there is the need to introduce something like a p...
over 3 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Reporting/Explorer 2 Not under consideration

Enhance GSLA to enable in-queue preemption

The Guaranteed SLA system allows sharing of Resources defined by ServiceClasses. We would like to use that to allow two or more groups to pool and share compute slots, wherein they typically unused slots would be available to all of the groups. Th...
almost 5 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 1 Not under consideration

THREAD limit to be set per HOST or PER CORE instead of PER JOB

The current THREADS limit on a queue level is set per job while it has to be set per HOST or per CORE. That is because current limit doesn't reflect the size of a job so is the THREADS limit is 600 it means that a single core job can produce up-to...
over 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 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

Email disable for mbatchd and enable for sbatchd

Currently , there is no way to seperately disable mbatchd emails v/s sbatchd emails. Means. We have set email set to N in lsf.conf , so that by default job report emails are not sent. However some users who need email can set in their environment ...
over 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 1 Delivered

LSF to preempt tasks in a running parallel job that use borrowed resources to allow PEND jobs with guarantees to go running

We hare 3 queues.All queues have same priority.Each queue has a GRP SLA (guarantee).All queues are setup such that each queue loans out it guarantees to the other 2 queues when not used. In customer environment is often the case that 1 queue goes ...
over 10 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Not under consideration

Adding 'PENDED' column in output of bqueues -l command.

There is the SHARE_INFO section in output of bqueues -l command. In the output, there is STARTED column. it mean started number of slots for user and user group. But, there is no PENDED column. Surely, we can know number of pend slot by using 'bqu...
almost 8 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration

Have launchTemplateId/Instance template for LSF Google Resource Connector work the same as if launching from Google cli/portal

Google LSF Resource Connector has the option to launch VMs based off Instance Template feature of GCP thru the launchTemplateId field in googleprov_templates.json. There is additional flexibility in being able to override settings defined in the I...
about 3 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Cloud Bursting 0 Future consideration