EJFAT Group Meeting Mar. 3, 2022

The meeting time is 11:00am.

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Agenda:

• Previous meeting

• Situation:
  • Testing with ERSAP on FPGA LB
  • Using script based LB Control Plane
  • Awaiting Compute Equip.- ETA 1 June
  • Awaiting Networking Equip. - ETA 1 July
  • End-to-end EJFAT ERSAP solution
  • Building Interim Test Lab
    • Use FPGA port #1 for local host subnet testing
    • Use FPGA port #2 for switch fabric testing
    • Use (2) spare/borrowed switches
    • Using spare 8 nodes (Abbott)
    • Using Hall-D spare 10Gbs NICs
    • Diagram
• Pending:
  • Minor f/w change for 'garbage' packets
  • Support C libraries for LB Host Control Plane
  • ESnet smartnic open-source GitHub repo (April)
  • ESnet private, forkable Jlab P4 and simulations GitHub repo (April)
• To Do:
  • Connect
    • FPGA port #2 to switch
    • Mellanox NIC port #2 to switch
    • Switch config for FPGA
  • CentOS 7 install on interim boxes - next week
  • FPGA routing based on
    • Event-Id (Tick) + Data-Id (ROC-Id) ?
    • Multiple Destinations for Event-Id + Data-Id ?
  • C-based control plane
    • Feedback from Compute hosts design
    • Control Plane Arp cache / network good citizen
    • SLURM
  • Control Plane daemon for compute host
  • Jumbo Frames - currently limited to 1472B frames - fix is in / not yet installed
  • IPV6 testing
  • EJFAT Subnet
  • Performance Measures (RT2022 - April 01 submission):
    • Stress Test ERSAP / EJFAT
    • Payload Size
    • Reassembly
    • Multiple Back-Ends
    • AOT
• Test Plan

• AOT

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