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Spectrum Symphony

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Adding version control mechanism for Symphony config files

Adding version control mechanism to Symphony config files for easy tracking and rolling back. The files should at least include: grid config files: ego.conf, ego.shared, ego.cluster, ConsumerTree.xml, ResourceGroups.xml. users,xml. etc application...
1 day ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 0 Submitted

Rest API support for allocation stats

we realized that allocation info is not exposed by Rest API, currently we need to do a lot of parsing for egosh alloc command output for that. Can we add an alloc feature for ego rest api so modern systems can directly retrieve such info. ideally ...
7 days ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 0 Submitted

Pythonwrapper has service return stdout/stderr to client

Pythonwrapper has service return stdout/stderr to client
9 days ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 0 Submitted

Priorities are strictly respected with new scheduling feature R_StrictPriorityScheduling

Our client is requesting a feature enhancement on top of what we have in the product. The following is an explanation of the scheduling policy Here is the description of the feature we would like for Symphony. Symphony provides a few scheduling po...
about 2 months ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 0 Submitted

Upgrade the .NET version to compile Platform.Symphony.Soam.NetCore_64.dll to 6.0.

The dll Platform.Symphony.Soam.NetCore_64.dll is compiled with a .NET Framework version (5.0) that is not LTS and is no longer supported since May 10, 2022. This generates build-time alerts. If you can upgrade to version 6.0, that would be great.
4 months ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 0 Submitted

.Net Core Support for GridSync API

Best if we can do .Net 8 directly. we would like to use GridSync for Data Caching and unify both workload and data entry point by using symphony API. so that we can make the workload entirely portable without have to manage different data solution...
4 months ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 2 Submitted

With out installing symphony binaries , we can make compute server with copying of entire compute working symphony directory

Hello IBM, we make symphony compute server with out installing ibm symphony binaries with we can copy entire working symphony directory from working compute host. copy bashrc and ssh keys then you can start the compute server with ego service Ex: ...
2 months ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 0 Submitted

Symphony management console (webgui) not able to produce Standard report for Network in/out and Disk I/O for Windows compute hosts.

Symphony management console (webgui) not able to produce Standard report for Network in/out and Disk I/O for Windows compute hosts. Such reports help business and technology team to study workload pattern, performance review of hardware assigned t...
6 months ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 2 Submitted

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