EJFAT EPSCI Meeting Mar. 2, 2022

Agenda:

• Previous meeting

• Situation:
  • Testing with ERSAP on FPGA LB
  • Using script based LB Control Plane
  • PO for Compute submitted - ETA 1 June
  • PO for Networking submitted - ETA 1 July
• Pending:
  • End-to-end EJFAT ERSAP solution
  • 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)
  • Test Lab build out
    • Use FPGA port #1 for local host subnet testing
    • Use FPGA port #2 for switch fabric testing
    • Use (2) spare/borrowed switches in DAQ data center/lab
    • Abbott supplying 8 rack mounted compute nodes
    • Acquire (cheap) 8x 10Gbs NICs for compute nodes ? / Use existing NICs ?
    • Plumbing networking to spaces
    • Configuration of network switches and Host CPU for FPGA LB
    • Diagram
• To Do:
  • C-based control plane
    • Feedback from Compute hosts design
    • Control Plane Arp cache / network good citizen
• Test Plan

• AOT

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• Actions:
  • David L, will check on spare 10Gbs NICs from Hall-D