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Version 2.4.1

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Support Spark History Server with NFSv4.1 KRB5P

Currently IBM Spectrum Conductor does not support the Spark History Server when using NFSv4.1 with KRB5P. Bank of America requires concurrent support of Spark History Server and NFSv4.1 with KRB5P.
over 3 years ago in Spectrum Conductor / Version 2.4.1 1 Delivered

SIG specific data and logs clean up

Conductor clean up service currently supports periodic clean up of data and logs with global cluster level retention parameters. Request is to support custom log/data retentions of files at per SIG level overriding global settings.
over 3 years ago in Spectrum Conductor / Version 2.4.1 1 Delivered

Spark 3.x on Conductor 2.4.1

Our applications want to start using Spark 3 on Conductor 2.4.1. Upgrading to Conductor 2.5.x is in long term plan.
almost 4 years ago in Spectrum Conductor / Version 2.4.1 1 Delivered

Submitting spark applications without the use of spark-submit binary

We would like to be able to submit Spark applications from external client as follows: "java --classpath... --spark-master ...."without the use of spark-submit binary. We tested this approach with java SparkPi example by adding parameters spark ur...
almost 4 years ago in Spectrum Conductor / Version 2.4.1 1 Delivered

Add driver_id field to ELK API on 2.4.1 version

We are currently using Conductor rest call, however due to some limitations e.g. Memory numbers are not correct, we are looking at exploring the ELK API where most of the data are correctly available. But driver_id is missing, please add the same ...
about 4 years ago in Spectrum Conductor / Version 2.4.1 1 Delivered

Duplicate Spark's cleanup functionality for eventLog directories inside the cleanup script

Duplicate Spark's cleanup functionality for eventLog directories inside the cleanup script, add new env var to cleanup service like CLEANUP_SPARK_EVENT_LOGS (This would be a medium amount of work, as it involves modifying and testing more changes ...
about 4 years ago in Spectrum Conductor / Version 2.4.1 1 Delivered

Running only CPU based model via WMLA

We are using WMLA to run GPU based jobs fine and also able to scale across the cluster. However, we are trying to run a model only on CPU (not on GPU) using the WMLA framework. We have prepared a model which runs only on CPU and not at all sending...
over 4 years ago in Spectrum Conductor / Version 2.4.1 0 Delivered

Blocking hosts participation in any cluster activity

Request for enhancement to have slot allocations get blocked for spark drivers / executors on nodes that are already declared as blocked by EGO in a scenario in which the Instance Group has not yet been deployed to those nodes. Today, when a node ...
over 4 years ago in Spectrum Conductor / Version 2.4.1 1 Delivered

Enable parallel deployment on "started" SIGs

Request for enhancement in which Conductor allows a running instance group to perform a resource group deploy push to all hosts in a resource group, resulting in a parallel deployment of the SIG onto those hosts. Currently today, that functionalit...
over 4 years ago in Spectrum Conductor / Version 2.4.1 1 Delivered

Update needed for Scala to 2.12

Hi We have received direction to upgrade from scala 2.11.12 to 2.12+ due to end of life notification for the 2.11.12 version of scala across Wells Fargo. Please reference case TS003764510 for details. Thank youRob
over 4 years ago in Spectrum Conductor / Version 2.4.1 2 Delivered