2024-11-28 Linaro Data Center Group steering committee Meeting Agenda/Minutes

 Agenda

• Previous meeting minutes: 2024-11-05 Linaro Data Center Group steering committee Meeting Agenda/Minutes
• Project updates
• Events
• AOB

Documents

• Meeting recording: https://linaro-org.zoom.us/rec/share/nNr2D_qPpQ_PXd8BzJaAX9IPXs4VNs8WhnvYRi-xc94gwxUpHP2_Uh66R9VOVL7V.FMrRD5xTQ0BoFQBo
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Action Items

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Minutes

• Projects updates
  • Deploy CCA on Arm Platforms (DCAP)
    • Ongoing work:
      • Upstreaming RME support for SBSA in TF-A and EDK2.
      • Working on issues found in Kata Containers.
      • Enabling support for the new CCA token format in Veraison.
      • Integrate Veraison with CoCo in order to have a  CCA native verifier.
  • System Ready Compliant Platform Collaboration (SRCPC)
    • Completed:
      • Added tests for checking OS support.
    • Ongoing:
      • Pass BSA ACS checklist.
  • Performance Optimization (PO)
    • Everton resigned from Linaro. I will have a backfill position announced next week.
  • Big Data and Data Science (BDDS)
    • Completed
      • Various advancements for Bigtop Manager.
    • Ongoing
      • Bigtop Manager development. Initial release expected for 1Q 2025.
  • Enhanced Software-Defined-Storage on Arm Servers (STOR)
    • Completed:
      • Fixed FIO-rbd multi-rbd peformance issues.
      • Finished performance analysis of Ceph SPDK NVMe-oF gateway.
    • Ongoing
      • Working on performance fixes for Ceph SPDK NVMe-oF gateway.
      • New roadmap coming soon.
    • Andy Wafaa: Does Lustre server works on Arm? This might be important for AI workloads as parallel file systems provide some advantages for this kind of workload.
      • Yes!
    • Kevin: Parallel NFS (pNFS) is also getting traction in the community for AI workloads.
• Events
  • KubeCon North America: 12-15 November, 2024, Salt Lake City, UT, USA
    • https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-north-america-2024/
    • Leonardo attended.
    • CCC sponsored and had a booth there.
  • FOSDEM: 1-2 February, 2025, Bruxelles, Belgium
    • Attestation devroom
      • Thomas Fossati is co-hosting it.
    • Confidential Computing devroom
    • Linaro is planning to attend and present progress on our work there.
  • Open Confidential Computing Conference (OC3): 27 March, 2025, hybrid from Berlin, Germany
    • Thomas Fossati, from Linaro, is in the program committee.
    • We are working on a joint proposal with Arm for a presentation there, around our remote attestation work.
  • KubeCon Europe: 1-4 April, 2025, London, UK
    • Linaro submitted a presentation proposal around the work we are doing to support Kata Containers and Confidential Containers with CCA, including the remote attestation part.
• AOB