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Search results: Spectrum LSF

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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

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

Support LSF_UNIT_FOR_LIMITS for "tmp".

Support LSF_UNIT_FOR_LIMITS for "tmp". LSF support "LSF_UNIT_FOR_LIMITS" for core/memory/stack/swap (man page of lsf.conf), but didn't implement to support "tmp". When I defined LSF_UNIT_FOR_LIMITS=GB, the value of resource requirement for "tmp" d...
about 10 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Delivered

Requesting for blstat -o

The output of blstat -t and blinfo -G is not easy to parse. We'd like to see LS information as blow. FEATURE SERVICE_DOMAIN TOTAL_INUSE TOTAL_RESERVE TOTAL_FREE OTHERS PROJECT SHARE OWN INUSE RESERVE FREE DEMAND sxe sxSD 126 0 102 72 sx_mem 65.5 %...
almost 9 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Delivered

Enhance Processor Affinity Management in Platform LSF To Address All Classical Execution Configurations for HPC Workloads

On behalf of our client, I have investigated the proper way to set the Platform LSF Affinity String ("-R affinity") in order to handle the standard execution configurations of their scientific applications. By "execution configurations", I mean th...
over 9 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Delivered

LSF Explorer :: Calculated fields for cluster efficiency

To develop efficiency report from ES data we need to enrich LSF_JOB_ACCT index with below columns RANK_MEMRANK_MEM_REQRANK_RUNTIMERANK_PENDTIMERANK_CPUTIMERANK_EFFICIENCY Please provide the means to do so.
about 5 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 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

Add/modify GPU affinity options for LSF

The objective is to add to and modify the GPU affinity options that LSF makes available via bsub -gpu, as follows. 1. When a user requests NVIDIA MPS via a LSF bsub -gpu option, the default GPU affinity should be "off", meaning that LSF should set...
almost 6 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Delivered