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Spectrum Symphony

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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 9 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 9 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 5.1 4 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...
over 9 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 6.1.1 2 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.
over 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
over 9 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 6.1.1 2 Delivered

SOAM - Platform Symphony & Docker Integration for SOAM (DUP33239)

Platform Symphony & Docker Integration for SOAM to confine net, io, mem & cpu. Grid resource confinement at granular level.
over 9 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 6.1.1 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.
over 9 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 6.1.1 3 Delivered

[Installation and Upgrade] Install - Display the patch level at which user is working on with the Platform Symphony through PMC

There is no way the end user can know through PMC, what patch level of Symphony 6.1, he is working on. The About screen of PMC console should display the current major patch level installed
over 9 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 6.1.1 3 Delivered

Windows 2012 R2 Support

Support for Windows 2012 R 2 as a compute node in Symphony 6.1.1
over 9 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 6.1.1 1 Delivered

[Cloud][SMC] - support compute hosts running in cloud (proxy)

add support for attaching compute hosts running on external cloud to managment hosts within our corporate datacenter. this must meet the constraint that no inbound connections may be initiated from the cloud instances. You may need to add cloud ve...
over 9 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Future Version 4 Delivered