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Spectrum symphony Fix pack + installer package

As the Fix pack available is quite large on top of the base installer package, we have some space limitation while building it into our ami/images. Would be useful to have a repackaged installer already containing the fixes in the fix packs in one...
7 months ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 1 Needs more information

Enable CLI that allows to modify resource groups' preference level for a consumer

IBM Spectrum Symphony product GUI allows users to choose more than one resource groups for a consumer and set their preference level to seek compute capacity when there is demand. However, there is no CLI (command Line interface) that allows users...
about 2 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 7 Delivered

Priorities are strictly respected with new scheduling feature R_StrictPriorityScheduling

Our client is requesting a feature enhancement on top of what we have in the product. The following is an explanation of the scheduling policy Here is the description of the feature we would like for Symphony. Symphony provides a few scheduling po...
about 1 year ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 0 Submitted

Enable AWS pricecapacityoptimized allocation strategy for all AWS providers

Allocation strategy price-capacity-optimized is recommended by AWS for spot workloads specifically. This allocation strategy should be the first preference and the default allocation strategy for most Spot workloads. It is recommended for workload...
over 1 year ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 0 Delivered

HF timeout interval required for querying application demand on cloud clusters

SSM was unresponsive due to the "select" issue we have seen before... Investigating why symA can not recover from the fact that one SSM is not responding Need enhancement for the symA requestor logic to deal with unresponsive SSM of one applic...
over 1 year ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 0 Under review

SSM crash and reboot

WHen SSM crash happen, after the dump creation, the service must restart automaticaly. At same times, VEMKD should detect this crash and send all applications that was to this SSM to another one and ask to the client to submit again the workload w...
over 1 year ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 1 Functionality already exists

Distinguish on-demand and spot instances in HostFactory under one application

In the current setup, all grid jobs run on spot instances. The risk with spot-instances is that they are not dedicated and can be reclaimed anytime due to various reasons. There have been times when a long-running parent task execution stopped at ...
over 2 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 3 Not under consideration

AWS spot eviction mechanism does not trigger onServiceInterrupt() event

CVA is using spot servers on AWS. The application is highly depending on the onServiceInterrupt() to properly shutdown the task when spot eviction happens. If the running task can not receive the onServiceInterrupt() and close its output files pro...
over 2 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 1 Future consideration

Calculate deserved slots only based on active i.e. non-idle consumers in e.g. Symphony HostFactory symA requestor

This comes from discussion in TS009907566 "Hostfactory scale up while cluster had free slots". "egosh consumer view" provides, in addition to other outputs, "Planned Quota" and "Share Quota", for a particular resource group (RG): "Planned Quota" i...
over 3 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 3 Not under consideration