2020-06-25 LDCG SC Meeting Agenda/Minutes

Agenda

• Previous meeting minutes:  2020-06-11 LDCG SC Meeting Agenda/Minutes
• SmartNIC Project Discussion - Consolidated Proposal (on the link click 'request access to view/edit')
  • Tomas Fredberg, Ericsson
  • Maciek Konstantynowicz, Cisco
  • Sam Fuller, NXP

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Minutes

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• Discussed the consolidated proposal as a work-in-progress to the Steering Committee.
• Overall the SC had no objections to pursuing SmartNIC with the interested parties present.
• Tomas Fredberg from Ericsson opened discussion - looking to software defined partitioning of a network. Chris Rossmith presented the attached slides.
• Telecoms are looking for technologies which are standardised and interchangeable.
• Maciek Konstantynowicz from Cisco discussed the opportunity for dataplane technologies such as VPP (FD.IO). VPP could reside solely on SmartNIC. Could support containers.
• Cisco are interested in NVMe over IP/Ethernet rather than specialised InfiniBand hardware. Looking for performance optimised hardware at the network and PCIe level - standardised.
• Cisco/Ericsson agree they have a very large overlap in requirements and can work collaboratively in the OpenSource ecosystem.
• NXP presented products based on LX2160A - not as a solution but a review of evolving requirements.
• Suggestion is to move forward as a voluntary project with voluntary engineers and see what interim work can be developed that may attract others later.
• Recommend Cisco/Ericsson remain as advisers to ongoing development and join in with existing Linaro members.

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