2016-10-24 HPC Meeting Minutes

Attendance

Committee Members 

NamePresent
Kanta Vekaria (OCTO, Linaro)(tick)
Martin Stadtler (Director of LEG, Linaro)(tick)

Darren Cepulis (ARM)  

 

Eric Van Hensbergen (ARM)(tick) 

Kangkang Shen (HiSilicon)

   

Bhalchandra Deshpande(Broadcom)

 

Larry Wikelius (Cavium)

   

Gary Yurcak (Qualcomm) 

   

Rammohan Peddibhotla (Qualcomm)

   

Linda Knippers (HPE)

   

Jon Masters (RedHat)

   

Kato Hirai (Fujitsu)

(tick) 

Takeharu Kato (Fujitsu)(tick) 

 

Guests 

NamePresent

David Rusling (CTO, Linaro) 

   

Mark Orvek (EVP, Linaro Engineering)   
Andrea Gallo (VP of Segment Groups, Linaro)

   

Anoop Saxena (Project Manager, Segments)

 

Francoise Ozog (Director of LNG, Linaro) 

   

Frank Wang (Linaro)(tick) 

Jason Souloglou (ARM)

(tick)  

Thomas Molgaard

   

Elsie Wahlig 
  

Agenda 

  • Progress status for open HPC (Eric) 
  • Progress status of the Developer Cloud instance (Martin)
  • Preliminary roadmap (Kanta)
  • Upcoming meetings
    • Potential topics for the next meeting Tooling, HPDA, Security - What does that mean for HPC?

Minutes

  • openHPC and SVE status
    • Eric: Engineers are working on resolving the CI Problems. Pixi areas will be resolved next  few days. Github issues will be raised where needed.
    • Unknown User (martin.stadler@linaro.org) asked about ??
    • Eric: Emulation for SVE is available which allows for functional testing 
      • Martin to explore what can be achieved with this emulator on the Dev Cloud
  • Roadmap
    • Eric: Kernel Focus work - Numa optimisations
    • Eric: We can act as a valuable bridge for HPC/HPDA OS communities, research communities (e.g National Labs) and for them to join the sig
      • Kanta: They would be good candidates of the Technical Advisory Board. Agree that we need to understand and have a plan on how we can support the different communities
      • Kanta/Eric to explore how we can take this forward
  • Upcoming meetings
    • For the next meeting
      • Gregory to provide an update on the Numa work
      • ?? 3 groups 3 projects Unknown User (martin.stadler@linaro.org) what was said here?
      • Leif and Graeme to discuss micro architectures and auto detection