2018-09-18 YVR18 HPC Meeting Minutes
Attendance
Committee Members
| Name | Present |
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| Kanta Vekaria (HPC Lead, OCTO Linaro) |  |
| Martin Stadtler (Director of LEG, Linaro) | |
| Andrew Wafaa (ARM) | |
Pak Lui (Huawei) |
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Larry Wikelius (Cavium) |
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Scott Hara (Qualcomm) | |
Steve Geist (Qualcomm) | |
Hongbo Zhang (HXT) | |
Jon Masters (RedHat) |
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Takeharu Kato (Fujitsu) |
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| Koichi Hirai (Fujitsu) | |
| Kevin Pedretti (Sandia) | |
Guests
| Name | Present |
|---|---|
David Rusling (CTO, Linaro) |
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| Andrea Gallo (VP of Segment Groups, Linaro) | |
| Anoop Saxena (Project Manager, Segments) |
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Renato Golin (Linaro) |
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| Peter Jones (DDN Whamcloud) |
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| Ryan Grant | |
| Bill Gray, James Laros (Sandia) | |
Tues 18th Sept - Lustre
Slides and Recording
Minutes Summary
- http://lustre.org/roadmap/
- Lustre client 2.12 is due to be out in Oct. This will work 'out of the box'. Linaro to validate with OpenHPC
- Announce at SC18 Client support on Arm
- HW needed for testing
- Call to action to collaborate, share findings and knowledge to help evolve it faster for Arm
Thurs 20th Sept - MPI
Slides and Recording
Minutes Summary
- What are the key MPI libraries that need to be optimised?
- Which MPI configuration is best?
- What MPI benchmarks can we run?
- Conduct a first analysis or pool analyses to then clearly identify engineering priorities and objectives. This work will need to be resourced with appropriate skillset
- Need to run scaling studies
- General consensus to focus on openMPI
- No concerns raised with Linaro's prospective Roadmap in Engineering review. All acknowledged the need for resourcing the efforts
- Members to share their existing openMPI efforts as part of the first analysis
Next meeting 2nd Oct
Agenda: Latest and greatest on openHPC (Renato): What's next? What is being driven by that community?