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Search results: Spectrum Symphony

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Protect switching SSM log levels from INFO to ALL more and add CLI to query current log levels

Switching from SSM log level INFO to ALL has the potential to slow down the cluster signifantly. It has caused two S2 (S1 is highest) in the last 3 years. Both were due to human error due to lack of knowledge (not knowing about the impact of it, o...
about 2 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 0 Planned for future release

[Security and Access Control] /etc/init.d/ego status overiding default behavior - not according to standard, breaks monitoring and automation tool chain

The init.d script being rolled out with Symphony 7.1.0 is the same across all compute and management hosts. Running the script in its intended way with the status flag always results in the same message: -bash-4.1$ sudo service ego statusego servi...
about 9 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.1 4 Not under consideration

[RFE][CS] - PMC becomes very slow during heavy workload

PMC becomes very slow when there is heavy workload running on a large Grid. Issue is seen on Resource Group, Resource plan, Consumer and Consumer Properties pages, however performance of Consumer Properties page is particularly bad. It takes more ...
almost 7 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.1.2 2 Planned for future release

transfer credentials for symphony child sessions

We are currently planning to use the recursive Symphony workload API. Our use case is 3 layers of recursion where the first layer is created by end users and the subsequent 2 layers are created by our application. Currently we cannot use the recur...
over 2 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 0 Planned for future release

Improved logging for SD TCP Backlog to aid troubleshooting

Requirements: Dynamic turn on/off with the feature being enabled by default. Log Format: Similar to VEMKD, may include more metrics such as queue size Data to be logged:1. Acceptance rate per channel 2. Performance of the accept (i.e. SSL handshak...
almost 5 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.2.1 1 Planned for future release

Enabling the Parallel processing based on Compute Express Link CXL 3.0 or CXL 4.0 Fabrics

CXL 3.0 is built upon the IBM OpenCAPI, but CXL3 and CXL 4 have more speeds and will achieve the following: 1- Enabling the Interconnection between IBM LinuxONE and Exa scale AI Data Centers based on Nvidia DGX H100 based on Nvidia H100 GPUs and I...
over 2 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Future Version 3 Not under consideration

CVA on AWS: Hostfactory: Redirect workload of an application to a specific resource group by its resource tag

This request was raised by our client during a CVA on AWS implementation discussion. The 1st case: 1. At minimum, they want to have 2 resource groups created 2. The 1st resource group, is a resource group which contains servers with a fixed capa...
almost 3 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 1 Functionality already exists

[Installation and Upgrade] Install - New Installation type: Management Console and Management Client

Currently, there are the following three installation types only.- Management Node- Compute Node- Client- Symphony DE But it's better to have new installation type "Management Console" or "Management Client".It contains ego/soam commands, but it d...
about 11 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Product functionality 4 Not under consideration

Prestart Service with SlotToTaskRatio different than 1

To improve processing time
almost 3 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.2.1 2 Delivered

Remove "obvious" deficiency in SSM scheduling when there are more than 10K open session #

When the Open Session number exceeds IBM's baseline of 10K, we can see Symphony SSM scheduling has an obvious "deficiency": Running task # starts to become much lower than the allocated slots to SSM bouncing between even 0 and very low; SSM busy o...
over 5 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.2.0.2 0 Planned for future release