2023-02-23 LDCG SC Meeting Agenda/Minutes

 Agenda

• Previous meeting minutes: 2023-01-26 LDCG SC Meeting Agenda/Minutes
• Arm strategy presentation: Machine Learning
• Data Center Group update
• CCA public meeting
• OP-TEE public meeting
• MySQL and MariaDB public meetings
• Events
• AOB

Documents

• Record of the meeting: TBD
  

Action Items

• Leonardo Garcia: work inside Linaro to make a blog post on the SystemReady work on QEMU.

• Leonardo Garcia: make a one page slide with the roadmap for all the items of interest of the Data Center Group.

• Leonardo Garcia: set up Database (MySQL and MariaDB) public meeting.

Minutes

• Arm strategy presentation: Machine Learning (Ashok)

• Data Center Group update (Leonardo)
  • Strategy and direction summary (with project status update):
    • The Linaro Data Center Group primary goal is to advance the Arm server technology.
    • Main challenges, how to address them, and projects we are focusing on:
      • Make sure may data is secure always and everywhere.
        • Confidential computing and secure virtual machines.
          • Confidential Compute Architecture (CCA) and Realm Management Extension (RME) support in the kernel and in emulated environments.
          • S-EL2.
          • OP-TEE enhancements.
        • Encryption for data at rest and data in transit.
        • Verification and attestation of software
      • Be able to seamlessly run my software stack everywhere.
        • Standards
          • SystemReady SR
            • Solidify QEMU as the reference open source platform.
              • Core PCIe functionality has been added.
          • Server Base Manageability Requirements (SBMR)
            • Make OpenBMC compliant with SMBR 2. Moved to back log for now.
        • Software stack
          • Emulated reference platform
            • Enablement of new platform features in QEMU.
          • BMC
            • Make OpenBMC compliant with SMBR 2. Moved to back log for now.
          • Firmware
          • Operating System
          • System software
            • Flang
      • Make sure everything performs.
        • Maintain relevant software for the Arm platform.
          • Linux kernel
          • QEMU
          • Flang
          • Tensorflow
            • In the middle of 2.12 release cycle. Some unit tests that are run only in Linaro's infrastructure are failing (these issues were not identified in AWS test infrastructure, which builds the official packages for Arm).
            • Building CI infrastructure for BenchDNN and OneDNN.
          • etcd
            • CI has been created and is running daily.
        • Performance monitoring for important workloads
          • GCC
          • LLVM
  • Previous projects not mentioned in our strategy and direction discussions:
    
    • STOR
      • Will continue as a directed project.
      • Luster
        • Support added to OpenEuler.
        • Finished performance test.
      • CacheLib
        • Arm64 performance is lower than x86.
      • SPDK
        • Early investigations.
      • No further updates will be made in this meeting.
    • BDDS
      • Ongoing discussions about whether this project will continue as a directed project or not.
      • BigTop 3.2 released. Ambari is now part of BigTop.
      • No further updates will be made in this meeting.
    • LED
      • In practice, this is dead.
      • Last update on August 2022.
      • Leonardo Garcia proposes a vote to shut down the page because:
        • No member is really interested and putting effort on it.
        • Maintaining this kind of web site does not fit well with Linaro's expertise.
        • More important: out dated information make us look bad in the community.
• CCA public meeting (Leonardo)
  
  • First meeting happened on 10 February.
• OP-TEE public meeting (Leonardo)
  
  • Kick-off meeting happened on 14 February.
  • Next discussions will happen in Linaro OP-TEE Contributions (LOC) public meetings. Next one will happen on 28 February.
• MySQL and MariaDB public meetings (Leonardo)
  
  • Various companies have been working in isolated form on MySQL and MariaDB to fix issues (mainly performance issues) they are seeing on Arm. There is little communication between this companies.
  •  Leonardo Garcia still needs to set this up.
• Events
  • Linaro Connect + mini LPM: april 24-28, 2023, London, UK.
    • Any presentation proposals submitted?
    • Linaro submitted two proposals
      • BDDS
      • STOR
  • OCP Regional Summit: April 19-20, 2023, prague, Czech Republic
    • Leonardo Garcia will attend.
  • Open Source Summit Europe / Linux Plumbers / KVM Forum: September 18-21, 2023, Bilbao, Spain
    • CCA technical discussions will probably happen here.
  • OCP Global Summit: October 17-19, 2023, San Jose, CA, USA
  • Supercomputing SC23: Nov 12-17, 2023, Dever, CO, USA
  • Any other events where we could collaborate or where you think Linaro should do a demo or present?
• AOB