EJFAT
(ESnet / JLaB FPGA Accelerated Transport)
EJFAT is a collaboration between Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) and Thomas Jefferson National Laboratory (JLab) for proof of concept engineering to program a Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) for network data routing of commonly tagged UDP packets from any data source to individual and configurable destination endpoints in an end-point compute work load balanced manner, including some additional tagging for stream reassembly at the endpoint. The primary purpose of this FPGA based acceleration is to load balance work to destination compute farm endpoints with low latency and full line rate bandwidth of 100 Gbs with feedback from the destination compute farm.
EJFAT System Status
ejfat-1
- 200Gbps NIC: ejfat-1-daq 129.57.177.8
- 10Gbps NIC: ejfat-1 129.57.177.131
- U280 FPGA: ejfat-1-dp 129.57.177.11
- Test moving a current LB install wholesale by moving files/containers
- IT Account Setup
ejfat-2
- 200Gbps NIC: ejfat-2-daq 129.57.177.2
- 10Gbps NIC: ejfat-2 129.57.177.132
- U280 FPGA: ejfat-2-dp 129.57.177.12
- LB: DP latest prod FW, CP Main branch Jan 4 Rev
ejfat-3
- 200Gbps NIC: ejfat-3-daq 129.57.177.3
- 10Gbps NIC: ejfat-3 129.57.177.133
- U280 FPGA: ejfat-3-dp 129.57.177.13
- Ready to accept second FPGA - needs addition PCIe riser
ejfat-4
- 200Gbps NIC: ejfat-4-daq 129.57.177.4
- 10Gbps NIC: ejfat-4 129.57.177.134
- U280 FPGA: ejfat-4-dp 129.57.177.14
- XDP experiments
ejfat-5
- 200Gbps NIC: ejfat-5-daq 129.57.177.5
- 10Gbps NIC: ejfat-5 129.57.177.135
- U280 FPGA: ejfat-5-dp 129.57.177.15
- LB: DP latest prod FW, CP Dev branch April 2 Rev
ejfat-6
- 200Gbps NIC: ejfat-6-daq 129.57.177.6
- 10Gbps NIC: ejfat-6 129.57.177.136
- U280 FPGA: ejfat-6-dp 129.57.177.16
- DAOS experiments
ejfat-fs
- 200Gbps NIC: ejfat-fs-daq 129.57.177.7
- 10Gbps NIC: ejfat-fs 129.57.177.130
- U280 FPGA: ejfat-fs-dp 129.57.177.10
- Hosts NVME memory/disk
Presentations/Papers
| date | presenter | Event | links |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-03-01 | G. Heyes | EJFAT Proposal | Word |
| 2021-10-21 | M. S. Goodrich | Div Brief | |
| 2021-11-05 | M. S. Goodrich | Canisius College | |
| 2021-12-03 | S. Sheldon | ESnet LB Tutorial | MP4 |
| 2021-12-10 | Y. Kumar | SRO iX Presentation | PPTX |
| 2022-08-05 | M. S. Goodrich | RT-2022 Presentation | PPTX |
| 2022-08-05 | M. S. Goodrich, et al. | RT-2022 Proceedings | |
| 2022-10-20 | S. Sheldon, et al. | INDIS -2022 | |
| 2022-10-24 | M. S. Goodrich | ACAT -2022 Presentation | PPTX |
| 2023-03-17 | M. S. Goodrich, et al. | ACAT -2022 Proceedings | |
| 2023-05-11 | M. S. Goodrich, et al. | CHEP -2023 Presentation | PPTX |
| 2023-10-12 | D. Howard, et al. | CHEP -2023 Conference Publication | |
| 2024-03-11 | M. S. Goodrich, et al. | ACAT -2024 Presentation | PPTX |
| 2024-04-10 | M. S. Goodrich, et al. | RT -2024 Presentation (Draft) | PPTX |
EJFAT Weekly EPSCI Meetings
EJFAT Weekly Collaboration Meetings
Technical Design Overview
EJFAT Technical Design Overview
UDP Transmission Performance
EJFAT UDP General Performance Considerations
EJFAT UDP Packet Receiving and Core Switching
EJFAT UDP Packet Sending and NUMA Nodes
EJFAT UDP Single Thread Packet Sending and Receiving
Testing Load Balancer Bandwidth
HOW-TOs
How to install, build and use gRPC
How to install, build and use XDP related packages
How to Compute Schedule Density from PID Signals
Edge to Core Test Equipment:
- Price Estimate Spreadsheet
- Networking Diagram, Updated (PDF) (from Brent 2024-02-09)
- PR408549 : Requisition 1 of 2 :
- Statement of Work for Servers
- 1/13/2022: EJFAT team decided to solicit two bid responses, one with MLX NIC and one without. Response from Procurement is "I can ask for the two separate quotes. If you are going to purchase both option (with & without add-in cards), once I receive the quotes back, you will have submit a new PR to cover the option (without add-in cards)."
- 1/18/2022: Question from KOI Computers: "please clarify what the part number for the NVIDIA Dual Port ConnectX-6". Replied with part # MCX623106AN-CDAT.
- 1/24/2022: Requisition currently open for bid responses from vendors. Due date is COB 1/24/2022.
- 1/27/2022: PO awarded to Atipa for 6 servers and 1 file-server with FPGA and MLX SmartNIC. Expected delivery date from vendor is 5/31/2022.
- PR408870 PR408938 Requisition 2 of 2: Statement of Work for Switches & Cables
- 1/14/2022: PRs for the switches, transceivers and fiber have been submitted. I added (4) 2km 100G transceivers to support dual 100G connections between the switches. We can always upgrade to 400G in the future, if needed.
- PR409850 NVIDIA ARM HPC Developer Kit
- Hardware Specifications for dev kit
- Model GIGABYTE G242-P32, 2U server
- CPU 1x Ampere Altra Q80-30 (Arm processor)
- Memory 512G DDR4 memory
- Storage 6TB SAS/ SATA 3.5″
- GPU 2x NVIDIA A100 GPU
- Network 2x NVIDIA® BlueField®-2 E-Series DPU, 200GbE/HDR single-port QSFP56, PCIe Gen4 x16, secure boot enabled, crypto disabled, 16GB on-board DDR, 1GbE OOB management
- Hardware Specifications for dev kit