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My votes: Spectrum Symphony

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RHEL 8.9 support in Symphony 7.3.2 Fixpack3

Requesting for RHEL 8.9 support in Symphony 7.3.2 Fixpack3.
24 days ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 0

Add template tag parameter into HostFactory AWS template

Due to security reason, PIMCO is deploy a policy so that all resources on AWS are created with tag. HosFactory creates temporary launch template while launching AWS instance. This leads to launch AWS instance failure due to no tag for the temporar...
about 1 month ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3 2

Request to add AArch64/ARM64 to Spectrum Symphony version 7.3.2 or a future release.

Request to add ARM/AArch64 to Spectrum Symphony version 7.3.2 or a future release. Required for power-efficiency and cost reduction. Required to provided by EOY 2024 to Q12025. Output from /proc/cpuinfo for processor info: For processor 0 to 128 p...
about 1 month ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 1 Under review

Numeric-only account support on Symphony 7.3.0

The client is using numeric-only account for over 15 years. It is difficult for them to change the account number to other ID including alphabets from now on. They need numeric-only account support to continue using Symphony in there environment.
about 2 months ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3 0

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,...
3 months ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 0 Planned for future release

suspendGracePeriod is honored and takes precedence instead of the EGO Consumer's reclaimGracePeriod

asking for the feature request where the suspendGracePeriod is honored and takes precedence instead of the EGO Consumer's reclaimGracePeriod in cases where tasks continue to run for suspended sessions when hosts where the tasks were running before...
3 months ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3 0 Planned for future release

Enable CLI that allows to modify resource groups' preference level for a consumer

IBM Spectrum Symphony product GUI allows users to choose more than one resource groups for a consumer and set their preference level to seek compute capacity when there is demand. However, there is no CLI (command Line interface) that allows users...
5 months ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 0 Planned for future release

[service/Instance]ToSlotRatio implementation across SSM and ego service

In Morgan Stanley clusters, SSM hosts are configured as part of the mgmt servers specifically grouped into SSM resource group(s). The SSM hosts are grouped by their hardware configurations including: Maximum physical memory, eg: ssm instances of t...
5 months ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 0 Future consideration

Spot Instance interruption notice support in HostFactory

AWS will send an interruption notice 2 mins before the Spot Instance is reclaimed. HostFactory currently does not pass the notice to Symphony cluster and application to handle the interruption. We will need this notice to optimize the workload for...
5 months ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 1 Not under consideration

EC2 Fleet support

In SPCS-I-906, we requested launch template support with EC2 Fleet. Given the time constraint at that time, the scope of the RFE changed to launch template support with Spot Fleet. Now with more requirements from our clients, consulted with AWS, w...
5 months ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 1 Not under consideration