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Search results: Spectrum LSF

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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

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

Cgroups CPU subsystem support

We want to ensure that jobs get the CPU time according to the amount of slots requested, especially on nodes shared by multiple jobs. This has always been an important goal in HPC environments. To achieve this we can use affinity, however CPU affi...
almost 11 years ago in Spectrum LSF 4 Not under consideration

Enable RTM to honour usergroup permissions so that a user can control all jobs via RTM that they can via LSF

We have configured many of our usergroups to be their own admin, which means that any member of that usergroup can manage any job submitted by any user via that usergroup. However, in RTM Grid->Job Info ->Details page the user can only contr...
almost 11 years ago in Spectrum LSF 3 Not under consideration

Read data by sourcing regardless of a local lim

Dear I want to explain the customer's request. Here is an execution server with a lim daemon. On this execution server, the customer wants to send queries to another cluster.(In this case, the LSF_LIM_PORT of both clusters is the same, because it ...
over 5 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration

Run multiple jobarrays in parallel in a queue when queue has UJOB_LIMIT specified

We currently use LSF to distribute electrical analog design simulations to our cluster. These simulations can be very short (>3 minutes) to very long (<48hrs). We have a queue system with timelimits, which means users can select a queue base...
over 5 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Not under consideration

Job status in lsf_jobs_active

There is an index in LE, lsf_jobs_acct. When I tried to make chart in LE webGUI with lsf_jobs_active index, we found job status is a little bit strange. Even if job has end_time, its status is "RUN", as like following,"job_status" : "RUN","time_st...
over 5 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Reporting/Explorer 0 Not under consideration

Adding number of jobs information in By Queue

in RTM, we can use Grid-By Queue and check the information in there.One of column in there, we can find 'Run Slots'.The information in this column means the number of slot that jobs are using in LSF. I don't know how another oversea customers are ...
about 10 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Not under consideration