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Spectrum Symphony

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Enabling Multiple MPI like OpenMPI, mvapich, and others for distributed processing Systems for optimized processing

IBM, Intel, Nvidia, and others have their own optimized MPI for Parallel processing, also we found new versions of mvapich from Ohio State University, therefore we need take this suggestion into consideration. We hope that IBM Spectrum Symphony ha...
about 1 year ago in Spectrum Symphony / Future Version 1 Not under consideration

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...
about 1 year ago in Spectrum Symphony / Future Version 3 Not under consideration

Adding heterogeneous processing CPUs, GPUs and FPGA Accelerators

In the near future we will need more advanced distributed heterogeneous processing , We think it is better to take into consideration the Intel oneAPI and other tools like oneDNN, oneDAL ,...etc. It may need joining openPOWER foundation and IBM wi...
about 1 year ago in Spectrum Symphony / Future Version 1 Not under consideration

Running Symphony on EKS

Since Citi's use case is running whole symphony in container,, Citi to log a new RFE for entire symphony be deployed in AWS EKS and let Steve/Geoff know RFE#..
about 1 year ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 4 Not under consideration

EGO_AUDIT_LOG_INHERIT_PERMISSION on Linux to have the audit logs inherit the permission of the audit log directory

EGO_AUDIT_LOG_INHERIT_PERMISSION on Linux to have the audit logs inherit the permission of the audit log directory , But While having executable audit log files may not be ideal, this is the designed behavior of EGO_AUDIT_LOG_INHERIT_PERMISSION. A...
about 1 year ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.2.0.2 1 Not under consideration

Submitting workload from 7.3.2 on prem to 7.2.1 cloud cluster

Submitting workload from 7.3.2 on prem to 7.2.1 cloud cluster, just want to get an estimation of how long this could be tested... will compare with our project plan to see if it is worth the effort to do so...
over 1 year ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 2 Not under consideration

Backport RFE134908 to 7.2.0.2

Backport RFE134908 to 7.2.0.2: Configurable backlog value in communication library
about 3 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.2.0.2 2 Not under consideration

SOAM_DISCONNECTION_TIMEOUT not working on SMC scenario

Regarding the issue of TestSleepJob hang when SMC is enabled, after long discussion with Yudong Wang in IBM, Yudong and dev team finally suggest to raise a RFE for the fix The conclusion on IBM is : The SOAM_DISCONNECTION_TIMEOUT was originally de...
over 1 year ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3 1 Not under 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 1 year ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 3 Not under consideration

EGO_MASTER_LIST supports DNS alias

The client would like to be able to specify alias DNS name instead of official hostname for EGO_MASTER_LIST in ego.conf. For example, there are below master, master candidate, management hosts in the cluster. The left side is their official host n...
almost 7 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.1 3 Not under consideration