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Symphony management console (webgui) not able to produce Standard report for Network in/out and Disk I/O for Windows compute hosts.

Symphony management console (webgui) not able to produce Standard report for Network in/out and Disk I/O for Windows compute hosts. Such reports help business and technology team to study workload pattern, performance review of hardware assigned t...
over 1 year ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 2 Submitted

Hostfactory round up the number of on-demand slots to 1 when it falls between 0 and 1

When choosing percentOnDemand=10%, quite often we get 0 slot calculated on the ondemand server therefore there is no slot on the server and leave the task pending forever. We'd like to suggest that hostfactory round up the number of on-demand slot...
10 months ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 4

INCLUDE directive for lsf.cluster file

Its great to have INCLUDE functionality added in LSF and we're using heavily in our multiple LSF clusters. Its makes it easy to manage many clusters for common config edits and keep the farms compliant. I am logging this RFE to extend this feature...
over 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 1 Planned for future release

let "-gpu" support "||"

This allows more than one gmodel to be chosen when submitting a job. So it is a useful feature.
10 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 1 Functionality already exists

Optimize task execution with task rerun inf in TaskContext

When a Symphony task fails, it is currently re-dispatched and rerun, with each rerun treated as a new execution. The application service code is unaware of whether the task is running for the first time or being retried. We propose including task ...
10 months ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 0 Submitted

We need spring framework updated to latest version for Spectrum Symphony 7.3.2 to address CVE-2024-38819 vulnerability

We need spring framework updated to latest version for Spectrum Symphony 7.3.2 to address CVE-2024-38819 vulnerability. IBM case #TS018324375 has been opened for this as well.
11 months ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 4 Planned for future release

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...
11 months ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 3 Under review

LSF to control SSH sessions on hosts running LSF jobs

We have many users who need to open an SSH session from their IDE ( VSCode, PyCharm) to a cluster machine running their LSF job so they can debug/troubleshoot/test in realtime in an interactive session. While battach works to connect to a cluster ...
over 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 3 Future consideration

Do not start jobs with less than X cores per host

It is useful for when ptiles or slots do not fulfill your needs. Using an example, we have an MPI code that requests 100 cores. We don't tell LSF how to grab those cores, and sometimes it will go out and span across 12 nodes, taking 19 cores on on...
11 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 0 Future consideration

Enhance lsmake4 to support Grouped Target's in the latest version of make 4.4.1

Currently our tools are using Grouped Target's which don't properly work causing quite a bit of rework after the initial compile.
almost 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 0 Planned for future release