Networking/MonthlyCalls/2014-11-10

OCP Networking Project Call - Nov 10, 2014

Agenda

• Follow-up on Paris workshop - http://opencompute.org/wiki/Networking/Workshop-2014-10
• Potentially moving monthly call earlier in day to accommodate folks in Europe and/or Asia
• Status on various specs and initiatives, previous action items
• More SAI discussion, determine in-person meeting time

Attendees

Please write your name, organization, and whether you'd prefer Dec 2, Dec 9 or either for a F2F meeting in Silicon Valley to discuss the Switch Abstraction Interface

• Omar Baldonado (Facebook) - either
• Carlos Cardenas (UTSA) - Dec 2
• Chuck Hudson (HP) - prefer Dec 2
• Lionel Pelamourgues (OPtumSof)
• Subi Krishnamurthy(DELL) - prefer December 2
• Bruce Barkhouse (Kuatro Technologies) - prefer Dec 9
• LIk Seng Lim (Delta Products) - prefer Dec 9
• Pathangi Janardhanan (DELL) - Prefer Dec 2
• Scott Feldman (none) - can't make it, no funds
• John-Nicholas Furst (Akamai)
• John Jones (EZchip) - prefer Dec 9
• Christopher Wong (Avago)
• Rob Sherwood (Big Swich Networks) - Pref Dec 2; cannot make Dec 9th
• Hitesh Wadekar(Clarkson University)
• Michael Payne (JPMorgan Chase) - Prefer Dec 2: Dec 9 also works
• Aviad Raveh (Mellanox)
• Guohan (Microsoft)
• Jack Kohn (Juniper) Prefer Dec 2nd
• Ben Gale (Broadcom) - Dec 2nd preferred, Dec 9th OK
• Marc Randolph (Dell)
• Peter "Doofus" Krey (OCP / Krey Associates ) Dec 2 ... already traveling Dec 9th ...
• Curt Brune (Cumulus Networks) - either works
• Sanjay Sane(DELL) - Dec 2
• Ed (Barefoot) - Dec 2
• Omar Sultan (Cisco) - Dec 2 Pref, Dec 9 OK

Minutes

• Paris Overview
  • 90% of attendees are first timers
  • Any interest for the Serial Concentrator?
    • Would like to have one but not be the first to build one
  • Any interest in IPMI on network devices?
    • Not really tied to IPMI but something like Chassis Manager in OCP-Server
  • Any interest in increasing the bw between control and data plane?
    • Yes, but what is the quantitative mark should we strive for?

• Broadcom/Interface Masters Contribution
  • Still working on License, expecting final contribution by end of year
• Mellanox Contribution
  • Still working on License
  • Box(es) being sent for ONIE compliance
• Accton Contributions
  • AS57XX-54X (48x10GB + 4x40GB), accepted by OCP-IC
  • Open Rack Switch Adapter
    • Working to address feedback by OCP-IC and to resubmit later this year
• Alpha Contribution
  • SNQ-60x0-320F (32x40GB), accepted by OCP-IC
• ONIE Update
  • 2014-11 release next week
  • Added 15 new platforms in this release (huge!)
  • Preliminary ARM (32bit) support coming
  • Canonical support to integrate ONIE into MaaS and to take ONIE to the server
• Draft: Pluggable Modules Compliance (Optics)
  • First draft sent out, already received good feedback
  • Aiming to have draft mostly complete by end of year to start testing in 2015
  • Elephant in the room, proper testing optics is going to be expensive
  • Need to work out a solution to spread costs -- topic to be addressed to OCP-F
• OpenNetworkLinux Update
  • Taking OCP-IC input and putting together a software spec for the contribution

• Switch Abstraction Interface (SAI) Update
  • F2F seems to be most request by members, Dec 2 seems to capture most of attendees
  • For those that plan on attending, should be
    • very familiar with the SAI draft
    • any questions or concerns on the draft should be sent the mailing list so that it can be addressed (either on the list or the f2f)

• Open Forum
  • Introduce Linux switch driver model and Rocker switch (Scott Feldman)
  • Linux switch driver against emulated switch ASIC (rocker) (net-dev linux kernel mailing list)

Announcements

• Face to face meeting for SAI to be announced shortly (week of Nov 11) for Dec 2