TAC Report and Progress Update from OFA Dev Workshop
Discover the latest updates and achievements of the Technical Advisory Council (TAC) at the OFA Dev Workshop. Explore TAC's initiatives, growth vectors, current focus areas, and future directions in advancing technology and innovation within OFA.
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TAC Report Tom Stachura & Diego Crupnicoff OFA TAC chairs #OFADevWorkshop
What is the TAC? TAC = Technical Advisory Council TAC Charter, the fine print: Investigate technology trends Review needs of end user markets/apps/technology Maintain links to IBTA TWG, Spec bodies, & end users TAC Charter, my words: Find OFA growth vectors Could be anywhere from simple & tactical to new & green-field We meet twice a month We = ~dozen technologists within the OFA We invite outside experts as appropriate Contact tom.l.stachura@intel.com if you are interested March 30 April 2, 2014 #OFADevWorkshop 2
So, what has the TAC done? Concrete Deliverables Vetted new ULPs & Proposing OFA synergies Recommended path to host GASPI on OFA site Intent is to reduce the barrier for OFA adoption to new ULPs Analyzed the I/O needs of Applications This was the start of the OFI WG The focus was to look at this from the application perspective OFI WG spun out of TAC TAC drove the creation of the OFI WG NOTE: Our hope is to replicate this incubation model going forward Additional work in progress Storage at a Distance Cloud & Virtualization relevance for OFED Exascale scalability March 30 April 2, 2014 #OFADevWorkshop 3
Where is the TAC going? 3 key vectors we want to focus on Improving Verbs OFA in the Cloud NVM & OFA We also still have unfinished work to complete Storage at a Distance Object Storage March 30 April 2, 2014 #OFADevWorkshop 4
Improving Verbs Scalability RDMA-CM QP Resources Scalability & Usability Heavy cost for memory registration Application Impedance Match Not mapping to well to MPI Different h/w implementations Mapping to well-known ports Recommended Focus area for OFA & IBTA OFI WG Focus Area March 30 April 2, 2014 #OFADevWorkshop 5
OFA in the Cloud We recently pulled together experts from Argonne, IBM, Mirantis, and VMware 1 session on this topic was hosted by VMware this morning Key points we learned: We need to: 1. Enable a socket-based solution for Cloud 2. Expose high-performance networking capabilities to apps 3. Provide support in a virtualized environment (e.g. don t impact or lose VM migration) 4. Provide support in an SDN environment (e.g. network virtualization and/or traffic engineering) OFI WG is leading on #1; TAC is leading #2-4 Contact tom.l.stachura@intel.com if you want to participate March 30 April 2, 2014 #OFADevWorkshop 6
NVM & OFA The TAC has not started work here as of yet We had a good kick-off with the 3 sessions yesterday: NVM as a Disruptive Technology Storage Class Memory NVM programming model (SNIA) What I heard: Low latency NVM creates a disruptive opportunity We can expose NVM directly to applications; RDMA is relevant here There is obvious synergy between NVM & high-perf networking The TAC needs to investigate THIS YEAR Doug Voigt and I have already discussed starting w/ use cases Contact tom.l.stachura@intel.com if you want to participate March 30 April 2, 2014 #OFADevWorkshop 7
Brainstorm what else? What other areas should we be investigating? What trends are important to OFA? Who should we be talking to? Send ideas to tom.l.stachura@intel.com Picture from signature-strength.com March 30 April 2, 2014 #OFADevWorkshop 8
Thank You #OFADevWorkshop
