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Search results: Spectrum Symphony

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Remove OpenSSL in Symphony client 7.3

Hi, Yudong, Unfortunately the security team informed us the DLL you provided ( 1.1.1w ) does not pass security scan, the result indicate the same vulnerability as previous version. Looks like we'll have to go for the option we discussed earlier: r...
8 months ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3 4 Delivered

Decouple the VaR sample application from WEBGUI based to CLI based especially need to generate credential for both kerberos client enabled and disabled clusters.

We are looking for a way to generate the user credential for parent-child application via SYMREST API interface. Right now the sample VaR application can only work from WEBGUI and there is no CLI tool to generate the user credential in session cre...
9 months ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 3 Under review

CPU affinity as LSF or compatibility with taskset

Good afternoon, we are currently working with MDS and multithreaded apps and have a question regarding cpu affinity or the possibility of adding specific information to taskset command while executing. When we are using cpuLimits, we see it works ...
over 1 year ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 0 Future consideration

[service/Instance]ToSlotRatio implementation across SSM and ego service

In Morgan Stanley clusters, SSM hosts are configured as part of the mgmt servers specifically grouped into SSM resource group(s). The SSM hosts are grouped by their hardware configurations including: Maximum physical memory, eg: ssm instances of t...
almost 2 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 0 Future consideration

Enhancements to support user-defined SSM boundaries, Client/SSM flow control and error handling mechanism for exceeding limits

IBM Spectrum Symphony product defines hard-coded boundary limits for total number of live sessions (10,000) and total number of live tasks (2500000) to allow users with a guideline to scale their environments. However, there are limitations that i...
about 2 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 0 Planned for future release

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

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