2024-11-05 Linaro Data Center Group steering committee Meeting Agenda/Minutes

Meeting Date: 2024-11-05

Attendance
Steering Committee Members 

Guests

Meeting Logistics

When? 4th Thursday of each month.

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 Agenda

• Previous meeting minutes: 2024-10-24 Linaro Data Center Group steering committee Meeting Agenda/Minutes

• Data Center Group strategy and direction

• Project updates

• Events

• AOB

Documents

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Action Items

Minutes

• Data Center Group strategy and direction

• Project updates

  • Deploy CCA on Arm Platforms (DCAP)

    • Fixed a few issues reported by Fujitsu on the remote attestation verification workflow.

    • Changed the TF-A Granule Table implementation so that it can be configured according to the memory size provided in the QEMU command line in the sbsa-ref machine type running as host.

    • Advanced in the key broker features development inside Veraison.

    • Next steps:

      • Upstream RME support for SBSA in TF-A and EDK2.

      • Fix Kata container issues. There is an issue that affects even non-confidential guests.

      • Continue working on the proper support for the CCA token standardization.

      • Integrate Veraison with CoCo in order to have a  CCA native verifier.

    • Roadmap:

  • System Ready Compliant Platform Collaboration (SRCPC)

    • Added tests to validate firmware on the project CI, as we need to mix TF-A and EDK2 versions for QEMU to work correctly.

    • Next steps:

      • Write tests for checking OS support.

      • Pass BSA ACS checklist

    • No roadmap generally available.

  • Performance Optimization (PO)

    • Analyzed PyTorch dependency graph.

    • Engaged with the NumPy community to understand where SIMD instructions were not properly leveraged yet. Found out that NumPy is currently discussing improvements on their dynamic dispatcher and how to better leverage Google's project Highway to get SIMD optimization for different architectures. However, project Highway itself has some gaps, with algorithms that were not properly translated to SIMD instructions. Trying to help project Highway maintainers on this effort with low priority.

    • Started analyzing OpenSSL performance.

    • Next steps:

      • Continue working on OpenSSL performance.

      • Continue working on Highway SIMD enablement with a lower priority.

    • Roadmap being built.

  • Big Data and Data Science (BDDS)

    • Started working on Bigtop Manager.

    • Next steps:

      • Analyze Spark performance issues. Try to implement VectorAPI.

    • Roadmap being rebuilt.

  • Enhanced Software-Designed-Storage on Arm Servers (STOR)

    • Add UADK support for Ceph compressor (zlib).

    • Analyzed and fixed a performance issue on Ceph.

    • Next steps:

      • Ceph SDPK NVMe-oF gateway performance test.

    • Roadmap:

• Events

  • OCP Global Summit: 15-17 October, 2024, San Jose, CA, USA

    • @Leonardo Garcia (Deactivated) and @Kangkang Shen attended.

  • Linaro Partners Meeting (LPM): 4-5 November, 2024, Dublin, Ireland

    • We are here!

  • KubeCon North America: 12-15 November, 2024, Salt Lake City, UT, USA

    • https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-north-america-2024/

    • CCC is sponsoring and will have a booth that will be time shared between CCC members. I am trying to get a remote attestation demo there, from Linaro.

  • Open Source Summit Japan (OSS-Japan): 5-6 December, 2024, Tokyo, Japan

    • https://events.linuxfoundation.org/open-source-summit-japan/

    • CCC is sponsoring and will have a talk.

    • Linaro and Fujitsu will be attending.

  • UXL will be hosting oneAPI dev summits in Asia and Europe/USA in the future. These are being organized.

  • Any other events where we could collaborate or where you think Linaro should do a demo or present.

• AOB