Networking/MonthlyCalls/2014-08-11

Attendees

• Carlos Cardenas (UTSA)
• Curt Brune (Cumulus Networks)
• Chuck Hudson (HP)
• CJ Williams (Microsoft)
• David Castneda (Visa)
• Robert Chu (Alphanetworks)
• Chloe Lin (Alphanetworks)
• Jo Chang (Alphanetworks)
• Brad Booth (Microsoft)
• Mike Andrewartha (Microsoft)
• lam (NEC)
• Mike Sem (Visa)
• Rob Sherwood (Big Switch Networks)
• Peter Bruno
• Dan Sparacin (Aurrion)
• Amir Sheffer (Mellanox)
• Bill Burger (Accton)
• Amber Graner (OCP)
• Chris Wong (Avago)
• Marc Randolph (Dell)
• Gerard Ghaibeh (Facebook)
• Dave Maltz (Microsoft)
• Albert Chen (Amphenol)

New Guidelines for Contribution Credits

http://www.opencompute.org/community/get-involved/tiered-membership/tiered-membership-contribution-credits

Review Alpha Spec

• What version of ONIE is being targeted?
  • 2014.08
• What NOS support?
  • Rob Sherwood: We have open network linux (http://opennetlinux.org) and are happy to work with you on this.
• Will you be adding fan tray connector part number?
  • We will be adding the connector number soon.
• When the planes of the boxes will be available?
  • Support for Msata drive for more than 128G flash (Gerard ghaibeh)

ONIE testing/certification update

• Will be contacting vendors this week to resolve 'non-hardware' requirements for ONIE
• Expect to start certification process in the coming weeks

Review HW perf testing

• What's the best way to move forward?

Review optics testing

• No update

Review OOB switch

• No update

Upcoming OCP Workshops

• China
• Japan
• France

Open Discussion

• Rob Sherwood: ONL is working towards to get it into OCP.
  • Amber: work with Omar and Will Mapp
• Robert Chu: Is there an open, standard API for software vendors to port their NOS?
  • Aviad: Mellanox has put forward a proposal last year about this and from the UNH workshop, it sounds like other vendors would like to join in on this effort
  • CJ: Microsoft would like to work with the community and that in the next few weeks we can add more work
• Mediatek: No standard on HAL?
  • Rob Sherwood: Need to have a few key applications and then eventually standardize on things that work.