2023-08-03 Data Center Group steering committee meeting agenda/minutes

 Agenda

• Previous meeting minutes: 2023-06-22 LDCG SC Meeting Agenda/Minutes
• Data Center Group project updates
• Arm Interstellar project

• Public meetings

• Events

• AOB

Documents

Action Items

Minutes

• Data Center Group project updates
  
  • Etcd
    • Arm is now a tier 1 supported platform. Etcd maintainers will take care of it.
  • SystemReady Compliant Platform Collaboratio (SRCPC)
    • Shashi will provide latest updates.
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    • Due to our priority on CCA work, Shashi will focus on CCA work to help make progress quicker there. This project will continue, as Marcin Juszkiewicz, a Red Hat assignee into Linaro, will continue the work.
  • Confidential Computing on Realms (CCR)
    • Arm requested a change to the name of the project in order to avoid confusion and to make sure that the work we are doing is very well synchronized with the CCA work.
    • The project will be renamed to Deploy CCA on Arm Platforms (DCAP).
    • Work ongoing in the reproduction of Arm's environment with FVPs.
    • From a management perspective, we are digging deeper into Veraison and how the attestation verification service it provides integrates with other part of the software stack, specially with Confidential Containers (CoCo).
  • Tensorflow
    • Finishing latest bugs before 2.14 branch cut. Release will happen probably before end of August.
    • Close to 2.14 there will be a 2.15 with the goal to introduce clang 17 as the official tool chain for Tensorflow. AArch64 is still built with gcc because there are 5 unit tests failing when building with clang 16. Andrew is investigating these issues.
  • Big Data and Data Science (BDDS)
    • Investigating some performance issues in Hadoop and Spark. The Spark issues are pointing to potential performance issues on OpenBLAS. Investigating.
  • STOR
    • Ceph
      • OpenEuler support introduced. Ceph can be natively built in OpenEuler and there is a remote CI running.
    • Lustre
      • CI was set up and new errors related to file system check were found. Next step is to investigate these bugs.
      • OpenEuler latest LTS release includes Lustre packages.

• Arm Interstellar project
  • Leonardo Garcia wasn't able to find out the list of projects / libraries that Arm is working on. Still investigating.
  • Would the members be interested in getting engineers involved in this project?
• Public meetings
  • Databases on Arm public meeting
    • Good discussion around some of the issues Arm is facing with MySQL.
• Events
  • OpenInfra Summit: June 13-15, 2023, Vancouver, Canada
    • Linaro presentation on the work we have been doing in the STOR project: Explore HPC Storage on Arm64, by Kevin Zhao and Xinliang Liu.
    • Kevin Zhao will provide an summary of the conference.
  • KVM Forum: June 14-15, 2023, Brno, Czech Republic
    
    • Leonardo Garcia trying to figure out whether any additional discussion is needed around some of the topics that were discussed at this conference around CCA implementation.
  • Confidential Computing Summit: June 29, 2023, San Francisco, CA, USA
    • First time this event happens.
    • Kangkang Shen will provide a summary.
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  • OCP Global Summit: October 17-19, 2023, San Jose, CA, USA
    • Leonardo Garcia will be attending.
  • Linaro Partner Meeting: November 7-11, 2023, San Francisco, CA, USA
    • Should we have a Data Center Group meeting before/after the meeting?
  • Supercomputing SC23: November 12-17, 2023, Denver, CO, USA
  • Any other events where we could collaborate or where you think Linaro should do a demo or present.
• AOB
  • Leonardo Garcia will be in Cambridge, UK in the last week of September.
  • Leonardo Garcia will be in the Bay Area, USA on the third week of October and the second week of November.