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Version 7.3.2

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HF timeout interval required for querying application demand on cloud clusters

SSM was unresponsive due to the "select" issue we have seen before... Investigating why symA can not recover from the fact that one SSM is not responding Need enhancement for the symA requestor logic to deal with unresponsive SSM of one applic...
4 months ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 0 Under review

SSM crash and reboot

WHen SSM crash happen, after the dump creation, the service must restart automaticaly. At same times, VEMKD should detect this crash and send all applications that was to this SSM to another one and ask to the client to submit again the workload w...
5 months ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 1 Submitted

When a session is suspended while tasks are running on reclaimed hosts, the suspendGracePeriod should take precedence over EGO consumer's reclaimGracePeriod

Define a very large reclaimGracePeriod (say 10 hours) for a consumer. If a compute host is reclaimed while the workload is running, then the tasks will remain running until the reclaimGracePeriod expires. However, if the session is then suspended,...
11 months ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 0 Planned for future release

.Net 8 support

Please provide .Net 8 support for both Windows and Linux as our app team is migrating to this LTS version.
6 months ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 5 Under review

Adding new retry mechanism for terminateinstances and other calls to AWS

Adding new retry mechanism for terminateinstances and other calls to AWS similar. Currently HF only has retry mechanism for "requestSpotFleet" and "describeSpotFleet"
6 months ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 0 Submitted

Require that symA wait for an instance to join the cluster before returning it.

Require that symA wait for an instance to join the cluster before returning it. Currently the symA can return an instance before join. We can control this behaviour with a config param, but the default should be to wait.
6 months ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 0 Submitted

OIDC support for the Rest API

Currently OIDC support is only available for SymRest for workload submission. But it is not in place for RESTful API reference for EGO. it will be good to bridge the gap.
7 months ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 0 Submitted

C++ 20 and Compiler Support for Symphony SDK

to align with our internal C++ version and compiler in use for quant library and risk engines in the environment C++ 20 on Windows : VS2019 version 16.11.31. ( May migration to VS2022 in near future) on Linux: gcc 11.2
7 months ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 0 Submitted

Provide option to start pre-start service with preferred resource group

Currently, only standby service supports to start service on preferred resource group. Request to have such option with pre-start service as well as the first time run will always slow with standby service
7 months ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 0 Submitted

Enable pversions script with a new option --patchdb <path-to-patch-db>

At Morgan Stanley, we have the patch data saved under each release directory /ms/dist/3rd/PROJ/symphony/7.3.2-fp2.9/exec/patch/patchdb, to ease the query under that MS release, we would suggestion that if we can add a new option in pversions scrip...
7 months ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 0 Under review