2019-10-24 LDCG SC Meeting Agenda/Minutes

2019-10-24 LDCG SC Meeting Agenda/Minutes

Meeting Date:  24 October 2019

Attendance

Committee Members 

Name

Present 

 

 

Alternate 

Present 

 

Name

Present 

 

 

Alternate 

Present 

 

Elsie Wahlig, Linaro

    

 

 

  

Andy Wafaa, ARM

    

 

Tony Chen

 

Kouichi Hirai, Fujitsu

 

 

Takeharu Kato

 

Li Wan, FutureWei

     

 

Kangkang Shen

     

Larry Wikelius, Marvell

    

 

Zi Shen Lim

 

Jon Masters, Red Hat

    

 

 

  

Satoru Okamoto, Socionext

 

 

Kiyoshi Owada

    

 

 

 

Guests 

Name

Present 

Name

Present 

Mark Orvek, Linaro

Andrea Gallo, Linaro

  

David Rusling, Linaro

Tom Gall, Linaro

Vicky Janicki. Linaro

Graeme Gregory, Linaro

  

Ganesh Raju, Linaro

  

Jammy Zhou, Linaro

  

Baptiste Gerondeau, Linaro

Kevin Zhao, Linaro

  

Paul Isaac's, Linaro

  

David Lai, Futurewei

  

Peter Liu, Futurewei

  

Paul Isaac's

  

Live meeting notes will be <<here>>    

Agenda

  • LDCG representative in TSC

    • Once a year, we have a vote for the TSC representative. It's that time of year again.

    • Jon Masters has held his position for many years

    • The essential duties are:

  1. Represent the LDCG groups interest (versus their own representatives company) at the TSC.

  2. Pass down information from the TSC to the group.

  3. Attend TSC meetings (Wednesdays) and F2F member meetings (normally held in late January and late July)  Next one is January 21-23 in Austin, TX, USA

  • Accelerator Frameworks project proposal

    • Debrief of smartnic's meeting in San Jose

  • AOB

    • Update on CNCF Proposal from David Lai

Minutes

  • Accelerator Frameworks and SmartNic's

    • Jon:  There is a compelling justification to a standardized interface. 

    • Paul:  was there smartnic to smartnic discussion?   

      • Graeme: Yes, but ran out of time.  Device to device is a critical feature using CCIX, CXL. 

    • Larry:  Are there official notes or meeting 

    • Kangkang:  There is a card that falls into this category. 

    • Jon:  This can be a collaboration for Linaro with ServerAC

    • WG Meeting week of November 4th.  Interested parties are Marvell, FutureWei

  • CNCF proposal update (David Lai)

    • JenkinsX is the umbrella, and understood not to be ported to Arm64

    • AndyW:  Concerned about overlap with work that Packet is already doing

    • Action Required:   Andy to discuss internally, 

  • TSC representative election

    • Larry Wikelius was nominated by Kangkang and Jon.  Larry is considering, but concerned about time commitment. 

    • Operational meeting is always the 1st Wednesday of the month.  Next is 6 November 2019.

    • Strategic meeting is the 3rd Wednesday of the month.  Next is 20 November 2019. 

Action Items

@Andrew Wafaa to discuss CNCF internally and then meet with @Kevin Zhao  and @David Lai   
@Former user (Deleted) send out to LDCG-SC smartNIC meeting notes.
All LDCG-SC voting members to send official nominations for elections of TSC representative.