2021-04-22 LDCG SC (Technical) Meeting Agenda/Minutes

Agenda

• Previous meeting minutes:  2021-04-08 LDCG SC (Strategy) Meeting Agenda/Minutes
• Review of Engineering meeting notes
• AOB

Minutes

• ASA
  Focus on SystemReady SR/LS and how we build a test scenario to validate equipment including Neoverse
  Which Neoverse hardware platforms we have available and where?
  N1SDP: Shashi, Ganesh, Paul, Cambridge Office (not Colo)
• Graviton2 possible
  Do we have any platform with LinuxBoot available?
  Sbsa-qemu only for now if someone builds LinuxBoot for it.
• BDDS
  Look into Hadoop/HPC/ML overlap
  Arrow SIMD optimization for ARM by using xsimd
  Bigtop release
  Apache Drill CI Setup
  Action: automate/on-demand rather than persistent CI - similar to LAVA
  Apachecon Asia talk with wikimedia
• HPC-AI
  As automation scripting completes the aim is to switch to development of the AI/ML Stacks rather than pure CI
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  CLOUD
  LKFT Integration: Integrate FX700 with OpenStack API is finished
  Network switch configuration ongoing
  Work with Hisilicon to setup some storage tasks
  Ceph and for comparison review Rancher's Longhorn
  OpenEBS
  Rook
  New Colo Cloud Setup UK2.linaro.cloud
  User manual
  Add one FX700 compute node, verified new kolla image with qemu 5.2 SVE support
  Promote SVE support in CNCF 
  openEuler OpenStack-SIG meetup Beijing
  Have a presentation about upstream openEuler CI support progress.
  Vendors want to release Rocky or Train version of OpenStack (rpm based installed, we are not working on this. Our focus is upstream support for openEuler (Devstack/Nova))
  Kolla release work
  Debian base gets updated to ‘bullseye’ (soon to be released as Stable)
  CentOS and Ubuntu updates
  During PTG (Project Teams Gathering) we started redefining our release cycle
  Opendev CI
  We managed to add new nodes from OSUOSL
• BeeGFS has a proprietary license for the Server component whilst the Client is a GPLv2.

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