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Spectrum Conductor

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Supporting block listing in Conductor Spark 2.3 and later

Blacklisting of hosts that had certain number of tasks or executor failures due to various reasons. This entails blocking hosts from taking more tasks and recording and notifying users for further investigation. This will also mean to reschedule f...
almost 4 years ago in Spectrum Conductor / Version 2.4.1 0 Future consideration

Make spectrum conductor token viability duration configurable.

When we schedule jobs over the weekend to run for Monday morning, the jobs do not run on Monday morning as expected, but give "Expired Credentials" error. These credentials do not expire as they are service accounts. This happens also for Admin ac...
about 4 years ago in Spectrum Conductor / Version 2.4 0 Future consideration

Accessing Dataconnector in conductor using python from GPU server

Hello Team, we have setup a connector in GPU to access HDFS from our CPU cluster. However, i am able to access the file in HDFS using spark but not using python. I would like to understand how to access HDFS using python commands. Connector Name: ...
about 4 years ago in Spectrum Conductor / Version 2.4.1 0 Future consideration

Request to release notebook resources in spectrum conductor when no workload running

The spectrum conductor currently doesn't release the jupyter notebook resources unless the user manually stops the jupyter notebook or the slots gets reclaimed by EGO. We do have a urgent requirement to allow the notebook resources to be released ...
about 4 years ago in Spectrum Conductor / Version 2.4.1 0 Planned for future release

VS Code Integration to Spectrum Conductor

I am task to support the VS Code integration
about 4 years ago in Spectrum Conductor / Version 2.4 1 Planned for future release

Re-build ss-spark-core to include newer libraries

Need ss-spark-core jar file to be periodically rebuilt to include newer libraries which is up-to-date.Conductor team needs to work with Morgan Stanley to match their application upgrade strategy
over 4 years ago in Spectrum Conductor / Version 2.4 0 Not under consideration

Need vcore-seconds and memory-seconds metric from Spectrum Conductor

The 'Vcore Secs' and 'Mem Secs' are the time for which application has used the core and memory in a given run of a job. Currently these numbers are not available in Spectrum.
over 4 years ago in Spectrum Conductor / Version 2.4.1 0 Future consideration

Spark Driver slot allocation

Currently spark executors and drivers are allocated same number of slots based on a configuration at the resource group level. This request is provide a separate configuration for driver slot allocation.
over 4 years ago in Spectrum Conductor / Version 2.4.1 0 Future consideration

Functionality/API to undeploy SIGs on hosts

Spectrum conductor provides APIs and UI functionality to deploy SIGs to all or selected cluster members. There are at times corruption on the member nodes due to disk out of space or misconfiguration, or state issues. This feature should clean up ...
over 4 years ago in Spectrum Conductor / Version 2.4.1 0 Future consideration

dynamically move nodes from a resource group to another by the means of updating node attributes

Background: today, it's hard to move nodes from one RG to another one using dynamically selection of hosts based on arttributes. We can tag a node with an attribute, but changing its value requires one to change ego.conf, remove the host from the ...
over 4 years ago in Spectrum Conductor / Version 2.4.1 0 Future consideration