2017-03-21 HPC Meeting Minutes

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Attendance

Committee Members 

NamePresent
Kanta Vekaria (OCTO, Linaro)(tick)
Martin Stadtler (Director of LEG, Linaro)(tick)

Darren Cepulis (ARM)  

(tick)  

Eric Van Hensbergen (ARM)(tick) (error)     

Kangkang Shen (HiSilicon)

(tick) (error) 

Larry Wikelius (Cavium)

(tick)  

Elsie (Qualcomm) 

(tick)

Rammohan Peddibhotla (Qualcomm)

(tick) (error) 

Grant Likely (HPE)

(tick)

Jon Masters (RedHat)

(tick) (error) 

Takeharu Kato (Fujitsu)

(tick)

Koichi Hirai (Fujitsu)(tick) 

 

Guests 

NamePresent

David Rusling (CTO, Linaro) 

(tick) (error)

Mark Orvek (EVP, Linaro Engineering)   
Andrea Gallo (VP of Segment Groups, Linaro)

(tick) (error) 

Anoop Saxena (Project Manager, Segments)

(tick)

Francoise Ozog (Director of LNG, Linaro) 

(tick) (error) 

 Jakob Blomer + David Abdurachmanov (CERN)

(tick)  

 Masami, Ganesh, Greame, Renato, Christoffer, Mike

(tick)  

 Wade (Google)(tick)
 Renato (Linaro)(tick)  

Agenda 

  • SVE Enablement for QEMU (Kato Takeharu, Fujitsu)

  • SIG meetings:
    • Topics
    • Next meeting 11th April

Minutes

  • SVE Enablement for QEMU (Takeharu Kato, Fujitsu)

    • Above slides presented

      Kanta : Need to prioritise this and to push to prioritise through TSC since the virtualisation team are a Core teams which facilitates requirements from all segments

    • Elsie : Is QEMU in general or SVE

      • Kanta: SVE specifically for HPC

    • Elsie : Vote as Yes

    • Christoffer : Fast model vs QEMU

    • Elsie: Fast models have associated licenses and thus preference is the use of QEMU for development

    • David A : +1 Need QEMU, We have a very distributed use.  

    • Grant : Can we identify application which can go side with QEMU. looking for not only enabling the feature but also software that also using this feature

    • David A: We have a set of applications that we use at CERN and that could be potentially used, common filter application.

    • Renato : As SVE spec is not out yet. Need to solve boot strap problem.

    • Kanta : First step could be take spec and implement QEMU, have good testbed. When SVE enablement in QEMU and you need specific application

    • Christoffer : We need to work on that. Not able to run any ARM suites on QEMU.

    • Renato : ARM may have libraries and benchmark for SVE. For QEMU can interact with ARM for more detail information.

    • Darren : Can see several use cases and most of them are open source. But can also look for open source for specific ones

    • Kanta : Will send the formal email for SVE enablement for QEMU prioritization with applications/use cases and push to TSC.

      • Will work with Martin/Christoffer

      • Members to provide list of any specific application

  • SIG meetings:

    • Topics

      • Request for technical topics for the next meetings

      • Larry: Coordination with ARM & ensure no overlap. And effectiveness of Resources

    • Next meeting 11th April

      • Eric & Darren to provide an update on openHPC and ARM activities