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Spectrum Symphony

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[Cluster Management] Add RFC2131: enable soamdeploy flat directory structure on Symphony 5.1

The RFC2131 feature implemented in SYM 4.1 was not taken into SYM 5.1 or versions afterwards caused by lacking of usage feedback a few years back [IBM contact person: Jun Zhu (junzhu@ca.ibm.com)], we need this feature for Symphony 5.1, as some lea...
about 8 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 5.1 3 Not under consideration

A new environment variable is needed at client side to point the DDT working directory to a local disk

In current release, DDT work directory is controlled by SOAM_HOME ( under SOAM_HOME/work/datamanager/host:port). The customer wants an additional parameter to control DDT work directory explicitly and separate it from SOAM_HOME environmental varia...
about 8 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.1 2 Not under consideration

[Resource Management Policy] Increase maximum number of hosts per cluster

Hello, Due to a massive desktop scavenging usage, some clusters cannot growth because of the maximum supported amount of nodes that may join a cluster (5000 max). Is it possible to increase the maximum number of nodes per cluster ? It is important...
over 8 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.1 3 Not under consideration

[IOP/PSMR/YARN] Request Symphony SMC to support MR Spark and ASC application

PICC will leverage SMC to enable resource sharing across multiple site, current SMC feature is not fully satisfied, include:1. So far Symphony SMC only support SOA workload, customer request to support MapReduce, Spark Conductor and ASC workload (...
over 8 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Future Version 3 Not under consideration

percentage support for numOfSlotsForPreloadedServices

currently, numOfSlotsForPreloadedServices only support an absolute slots number, in the case of different resource plan, it is very hard to predict how many slots I will have available. Thus, a percentage is preferred. E.g., I'd like to prestart 5...
over 8 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.1 3 Not under consideration

[Security and Access Control] Multi-head - LSF submission user needs to have access to symphony GUI and view/control own jobs

LSF job submission user can use CLI to view/control own jobs, they need to have the same functionality to view/control own jobs from GUI.The currently RBAC does not meeting this requirement.
over 8 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Future Version 3 Not under consideration

[Cluster Management] EGO - RS - Include package file name in the package deployed

when does a soamdeploy, a common command is like below:soamdeploy add -p packagefilename -c consumer We'd like the "packagefilename" to be captured and stored in the package deployed.
over 8 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.1 3 Not under consideration

[Support Matrix] - Intel Xeon Phi SDK and Compute support on Windows

We have a requirement for Grid users for Phi card support on Windows Servers with Symphony as a scheduler. For this compute host package is a mandate. Symphony + Linux + Phi is supported, we need the same for Windows + Symphony + Phi.
over 8 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 6.1.1 4 Not under consideration

Provide an option in which the harvestible server can be opened for a particular number of slots for Symphony jobs

The physical server harvesting should provide an option where we can choose as to how many slots of the harvestible resource can be harvested for Symphony jobs
over 8 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 6.1.1 2 Not under consideration

[Cluster Management] EGO - Harvesting - Provide time based thresholds which prohibts Physical Server harvesting during business hrs/peak usage.

The Physical Server harvesting configuration file should provide a time based threshould through which we can close the harvested host from accepting symphony jobs
over 8 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 6.1.1 3 Not under consideration