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Spectrum Symphony

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Enable AWS pricecapacityoptimized allocation strategy for all AWS providers

Allocation strategy price-capacity-optimized is recommended by AWS for spot workloads specifically. This allocation strategy should be the first preference and the default allocation strategy for most Spot workloads. It is recommended for workload...
4 months ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 0 Under review

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

Please provide update for Spectrum Symphony 7.3.1 and 7.3.2 to update Spring Boot version to 3.3

Our compliance team is requiring all Spring Boot version be updated to 3.3 since all previous versions are already end of life or approaching end of life in next 30-45 days.
5 months ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3 5 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

Symphony jobs log retrieval enhanced mechanism

Whereas Symphony provides an easy way to retrieve its own cluster logs through its System Logs web interface, the same is not true for user jobs submitted to the cluster. Today, a given job’s log is generated and stored on the filesystem. A user m...
almost 2 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Future Version 2 Functionality already exists

Symphony / Conductor - reporting access granularity

A user who wishes to access the reporting capabilities of Symphony and Conductor must be given a role that allows access to Reports and PERF. Once that’s done, the user can view metrics reports from the whole cluster which is something only Admins...
almost 2 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Future Version 0 Future consideration

Symphony Alerting / notification mechanism through Webhooks

Spectrum Symphony and Spectrum Conductor are cluster managemet solutions that orchestrate running distributed workloads on a multitude of servers in the cluster. As such, they need to konw the state of the servers in the cluster. Traditionally, cl...
almost 2 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Future Version 2 Future consideration

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