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Spectrum Symphony

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Podman container for windows service instances on Linux

We are looking for a solution to run Windows applications podman containers on Linux compute hosts
9 months ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 0 Not under consideration

Support values greater than 4GB for task input/output in Spectrum Symphony 7.3.2

Support values greater than 4GB for task input/output in Spectrum Symphony 7.3.2
9 months ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 1 Not under consideration

Add filter function into HostFactory view

There is no filter or seach function on HostFactory view. There are more than 1000 instance and 200 requests created every day. It is very inconvenience to find right host or request
9 months ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 0 Planned for future release

egosh service list not get service output

This happened between our egosh "client" on on-prem workstation and the cluster on AWS. On-prem in our workstation we've setup a "egosh client" which basically is a collection of binaries and dependency of egosh.exe for the purpose of administrati...
9 months ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3 0 Future 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...
11 months ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 0 Planned for future release

Enable EC2 instance tags for HostFactory instances in metadata service

At present, EC2 instances provisioned via HostFactory is based on the launch template definition controlled by IBM. We have requirements to segregate HostFactory instance into multiple resource groups based on resource tagging. Custom tags created...
11 months ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 0 Future consideration

The request expire time for HF scheduled request

We are expecting the instance request overwrite the RequestExpiry set in Template, and keep the request active until end time set by the scheduled request. There is high chance instance got terminated by AWS due to various reasons. Keeping the req...
12 months ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 2 Future consideration

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 ...
about 1 year ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 3 Not under consideration

systemd unit file for starting symphony during boot

Currently, the symphony start up script is set under /etc/init.d. We expects to have systemd unit file for symphony start up. Esepcally we are upgrading to RHEL8
about 1 year ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 1 Functionality already exists

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