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Spectrum Symphony

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[Security and Access Control][CE] [Security] - Symphony should immediately reflect changes in Active Directory

The current Active Directory behavior in Symphony 7.1 is flawed. Feedback from support is that the expected practice is after a new user or group is added to AD or an existing user is added to an existing group that the cluster should be restarted...
over 8 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.1 3 Delivered

[EGO][CLI] - Truncated Consumer Name on egosh alloc list "-l"

Current the consumer name is truncated even with "-l" option. It is extremely inconvenience for user. It is great if user can configure statically or dynamically length of consumer. egosh alloc list -lALLOC CONSUMER CLIENT RGROUP RESOURCE ALLOCATE...
over 8 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 6.1.1 5 Delivered

[CE] [NUDT] - The 3rd phase HA requirement

The 3rd phase project added 2 HA scenario: 1. all processing workload run in one share memory fat node2. multiple main-processing fat nodes aggregate to one post-processing fat node. Also need enhance the simulation sample to the 3rd phase test cr...
over 8 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 6.1/6.1.0.1 4 Delivered

[SDK and API] - Client connection HA - Add re-try logic for symphony initial connection failures

Platform symphony have environmental variables on client side to retry established connections to SSM should problems happen. However there is no re-try logic if there is problem connecting to symphony for initial connections. This is painful when...
over 8 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 5.1 4 Delivered

MapReduce - Platform Symphony Admin ID can submit MapReduce jobs with root privileges.

If the user has the Cluster Admin id and Password used for the Platform Symphony Console, that same id can be used as user/password combination to submit a mapreduce job with root access.
over 8 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 6.1.1 3 Delivered

[Workload Scheduling Policy] SOAM - Policy - Task scheduled to service instance under initialization instead of those ready to run tasks

The service has the logic to restart itself once memory utilization hits certain threshold. It returns a control code(1) when finishing a task, and upon this control code, SI is configured to restart itself. However, tasks are found to be dispatch...
over 8 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 5.1 4 Delivered

[Workload Scheduling Policy] SOAM - 1:N Service-to-Slot ratio should double the memory limit in cgroups. [DUP 33239]

For 1:N Service-to-Slot ratio, the memory limit in cgroups should double up approx. based on the no. of slots provided. So a process memory limit can dynamically expand based on the no. of slots given and the S-to-S ratio.
almost 9 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 6.1.1 3 Delivered

Default attribute to be present for GPGPU & Xeon Phi for standardization in ego.shared

Default attribute to be present for GPGPU & Xeon Phi for standardization in ego.shared. This helps to have standard nomenclature in the grid, instead of any random tags picked.
almost 9 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 6.1.1 2 Delivered

Consumer Creation through Command Line

Consumer creation can only be done through PMC GUI, there is no command line to do so. Suppose you have an application source code which uses SOAM internal libraries, you compile the application, you can register it and deploy it but to do so, con...
almost 9 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 6.1.1 2 Delivered

PMC GUI Failover Virtual IP Address

Symphony should have a virtual ip for PMC GUI, so that when master fails and PMC GUI service goes to Secondary, one doesn't need to change IP address in browser to access PMC
almost 9 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 6.1.1 2 Delivered