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Spectrum Symphony

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Enable EC2 instance tags for HostFactory instances in metadata service

At present, EC2 instances provisioned via HostFactory is based on the launch template definition controlled by IBM. We have requirements to segregate HostFactory instance into multiple resource groups based on resource tagging. Custom tags created...
over 1 year ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 0 Future consideration

The request expire time for HF scheduled request

We are expecting the instance request overwrite the RequestExpiry set in Template, and keep the request active until end time set by the scheduled request. There is high chance instance got terminated by AWS due to various reasons. Keeping the req...
over 1 year ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 2 Future consideration

VEMKD performance improvement by caching VEM_LOGON

When we do regression test say 800 instances, 50K slots, we found out VEMKD thinking a long time. By having checked performance, it took minutes to finish VEM_LOGON. We request to either cache logon information to eliminate unnecessary ones
over 3 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.2.1 0 Future consideration

Distinguish on-demand and spot instances in HostFactory under one application

In the current setup, all grid jobs run on spot instances. The risk with spot-instances is that they are not dedicated and can be reclaimed anytime due to various reasons. There have been times when a long-running parent task execution stopped at ...
over 1 year ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 3 Not under consideration

systemd unit file for starting symphony during boot

Currently, the symphony start up script is set under /etc/init.d. We expects to have systemd unit file for symphony start up. Esepcally we are upgrading to RHEL8
almost 2 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 1 Functionality already exists

Enabling Multiple MPI like OpenMPI, mvapich, and others for distributed processing Systems for optimized processing

IBM, Intel, Nvidia, and others have their own optimized MPI for Parallel processing, also we found new versions of mvapich from Ohio State University, therefore we need take this suggestion into consideration. We hope that IBM Spectrum Symphony ha...
almost 2 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Future Version 1 Not under consideration

Enabling the Parallel processing based on Compute Express Link CXL 3.0 or CXL 4.0 Fabrics

CXL 3.0 is built upon the IBM OpenCAPI, but CXL3 and CXL 4 have more speeds and will achieve the following: 1- Enabling the Interconnection between IBM LinuxONE and Exa scale AI Data Centers based on Nvidia DGX H100 based on Nvidia H100 GPUs and I...
almost 2 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Future Version 3 Not under consideration

Adding heterogeneous processing CPUs, GPUs and FPGA Accelerators

In the near future we will need more advanced distributed heterogeneous processing , We think it is better to take into consideration the Intel oneAPI and other tools like oneDNN, oneDAL ,...etc. It may need joining openPOWER foundation and IBM wi...
almost 2 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Future Version 1 Not under consideration

AWS spot eviction mechanism does not trigger onServiceInterrupt() event

CVA is using spot servers on AWS. The application is highly depending on the onServiceInterrupt() to properly shutdown the task when spot eviction happens. If the running task can not receive the onServiceInterrupt() and close its output files pro...
almost 2 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 1 Future consideration

support installing primary host in silent mode

When moving Symphony clusters to AWS/Azure, not allowing to install primary host(first one) in a silent mode such as Windows bat script is really unfriendly to us. And brough us lots of inconvenience and extra work. Can you make it happen in 7.3 a...
almost 2 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3 0 Future consideration