Hardware Management/Hardware Fault Management

Welcome

Welcome to the OCP Hardware Fault Management Sub-project. This is a sub-project of the OCP Hardware Management Project

This Project is open to the public and we welcome all those who would like to be involved.

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Project Overview

The Hardware Fault Management subproject’s goal is to address the Large scale data center pain-points in managing hardware faults effectively. Objective of the subproject: to define hardware fault management solution such that it

- Minimizes performance degradation
- Reduces No Trouble Found (NTF) in RMA
- Scales the solution across heterogeneous fleet

Activities of the sub-project include:

- Develop running list of pain-points related to HW fault handling in the fleet(Facebook): OCP-PainpointList
- Develop hardware fault management solution best practices to address the above pain-points(Facebook): OCP-BestPractice
- Hardware Error reporting format Standardization(Microsoft): HW error reporting format
- Define hardware error classification(HPE): HW Error Classification
- OCP Fault Management Infrastructure Proposal(Google): OCP Fault Management Infrastructure Proposal
- Standardizing system behavior under hardware failures (future topic)
- Provide reference and guidance on system hardware failure management (future topic)

Sub-Project Leadership

- Zhengyu Yang (Facebook), Anil Agrawal (Facebook), Rama Bhimanadhuni (Microsoft), & Yogesh Varma (Intel)

Get Involved

Participate in the discussion, mailing list: OCP-HWFaultMgt@OCP-All.groups.io Mailing List Info

Participate in HW Fault Management sub-project meetings

- OCP Calendar

- Call Link

- Regular meetings are held every other Friday from 2-3pm PT.

- You can also dial in using your phone.

- United States (Toll Free): 1 877 309 2073

- United States: +1 (646) 749-3129

- (Access Code: 865-768-677)

Provide feedback and comments to working documents

Agendas and Minutes

Meeting Date 07/22/21

Participant: Anil (FB), Drew (Google), Mark (HPE), Rama (MS), Yogesh (Intel), Antonio (Intel)

Proposed Agenda:

1. OCP global summit planning (Anil)

2. Logistics of core meetings (Antonio/Yogesh)

       a. Meeting time and duration change
       b. Update pain-point spreadsheet

3. EDAC-extensions proposal (Anil)

Meeting Notes:

1. The following proposals were submitted for OCP Global Summit:

        a. A study of 'Host-based Hardware Corrected Fault Reporting' methods in a compute platform for large-scale cloud infrastructure
        b. Study of memory corrected error profile in cloud infrastructure
        c. Mark: Error classification standardization

2. Proposals getting ready to submit:

       a. Rama/Antonio/Jeff Autor: Error formatting standardization proposal (plan to submit)
          i.  Antonio to take lead for getting requirements published at the OCP portal
          ii. Rama took the lead in submitting the proposal and presenting.
       b. Drew: Error reporting architecture for cloud infrastructure
       c. Yogesh: Status of HW fault management sub-project

3. Logistics of core meetings (Antonio/Yogesh)

       a. Meeting time is agreed by the core team. Yogesh/Michael sent the revised meeting invitation. Alternate Fridays 2-3 PM PST
       b. Pending Task - review the updates in pain-point spreadsheet

4. EDAC-extensions proposal (Anil)

       - Reviewed briefly. Need to discuss further in the following meeting.

Working Documents

- Running list of pain-points related to HW fault handling: OCP-PainpointList

- Hardware fault management solution best practices to address the above pain-points: OCP-BestPractice

- Hardware Error reporting format Standardization: HW error reporting format

- Hardware error classification: HW Error Classification

- OCP Fault Management Infrastructure Proposal : OCP Fault Management Infrastructure Proposal

Presentations & Other Documents

1. OCP Presentation Template - please contact Michael Schill or Archna Haylock for a copy

2. OCP2020 Tech Week - Lighting Talk: OCP HW Fault Management Sub-project Update

3. OCP2020 Global Virtual Summit presentation: Overview of HW Fault Management Sub-project

4. OCP2019 Regional Summit: Platform Hardware Error Handling Requirements for Large Scale Data Center

5. OCP2019 Global Summit: Minimizing the performance penalty associated with SMM based hardware error handling solution

Past Calls - Recordings

- September 17th, 2021

- August 20th, 2021

- August 13th, 2021

- July 30th, 2021

- June 25th, 2021

- April 30th, 2021

- March 26th, 2021

- February 26th, 2021

- January 29th, 2021

- September 25th, 2020

- August 28th, 2020

- July 31st, 2020

- June 26th, 2020