2018-10-19

Contacting Mellanox for upstreaming OpenSM virtualisation

• This is a known issue and present in RedHat's release notes
• Not very high priority for Mellanox, but we have to keep pushing

Got CentOS VM on AArch64 and trying to get IB interface through

• Not able to get the driver through, may need changes to configuration
• May be worth trying PCI passthrough: nodedev list

OpenBLAS hack to enable A57 instead of ARMv8

• This is not a good solution, but it's better than the current way
• We need to work with OpenBLAS anyway, so if no one wants the hack, we ignore it for now
• If members want, Linaro can hold a temporary 
• Huawei tested OpenBLAS last year and it was good enough, built by hand, thus A57 on D05
• Huawei's new chip is custom and not A57, so the build could be worse than D05 as it would default make

Mr-Provisioner Client done

• Moving the provisioning jobs in Jenkins to use the client directly
• Will develop Ansible bindings later, simplify our setup and ERP's repositories
• With documents and everything

ERP CentOS failed on D03

• In our lab and the main lab, so not an issue with our setup
• Haven't tested on others, will try next week

2018-10-12

IB perf automation going strong, just finished the Ansible module to parse results into JUnit XML for Jenkins.

• Jenkins' report is a bit terse, trying to work with JSON too, for Squad
• May reuse the same logic for OpenHPC test-suite

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