<div dir="ltr">Yes the project is quite new, we are still developing requirements at the OPNFV side. We will update with full description after the summit when we got all the inputs. Look forward to have a chat with you at the summit :)<div><br></div><div>I think you are right that Nomad does not solve the problem per se in this thread, however it would be the natural next step. After having Nova being able to use FPGA as a resource, you will need to be able schedule FPGA resources for the VM.</div><div><br></div><div>We also have a team based in Canada that specialized in FPGA related management that will participate in the Nomad development, we could have more deep dive chat when we got chance :)</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Apr 6, 2016 at 6:28 PM, Roman Dobosz <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:roman.dobosz@intel.com" target="_blank">roman.dobosz@intel.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="">On Wed, 6 Apr 2016 16:12:16 +0800<br>
Zhipeng Huang <<a href="mailto:zhipengh512@gmail.com">zhipengh512@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
<br>
> You are actually touching on something we have been working on. There is a<br>
> team in OPNFV DPACC project has been working acceleration related topics,<br>
> including folks from CMCC, Intel, ARM, Freescale, Huawei. We found out that<br>
> in order to have acceleration working under NFV scenrios, other than Nova<br>
> and Neutron's support, we also need a standalone service that manage<br>
> accelerators itself.<br>
><br>
> That means we want to treat accelerators, and FPGA being an important part<br>
> of it, as a first class resource citizen and we want to be able to do life<br>
> cycle management and scheduling on acceleration resources.<br>
><br>
> Based upon that requirement we started a new project called Nomad [1] on<br>
> Jan this year, to serve as an OpenStack service for distributed<br>
> acceleration management.<br>
><br>
> We've just started the project, and currently discussing the first BP [2].<br>
> We have a team working on IP-SEC based accelerator mgmt, and would love to<br>
> have more people to work on topics like FPGA.<br>
><br>
> We also have a topic on introducing Nomad accepted in Austin Summit [3].<br>
><br>
> You are more than welcomed to join the conversation : )<br>
<br>
</span>Thanks! I'll try to attend.<br>
<br>
Nevertheless, I've briefly looked at page of project Nomad, and don't<br>
quite get it, how this might be related to cases described in this<br>
thread - i.e. providing attachable, non trivial devices as a new<br>
resources in Nova.<br>
<div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><br>
--<br>
Cheers,<br>
Roman Dobosz<br>
<br>
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</div></div></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr">Zhipeng (Howard) Huang</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Standard Engineer</div><div>IT Standard & Patent/IT Prooduct Line</div><div dir="ltr">Huawei Technologies Co,. Ltd</div><div dir="ltr">Email: <a href="mailto:huangzhipeng@huawei.com" target="_blank">huangzhipeng@huawei.com</a></div><div dir="ltr">Office: Huawei Industrial Base, Longgang, Shenzhen</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">(Previous)<br><div>Research Assistant</div><div>Mobile Ad-Hoc Network Lab, Calit2</div><div>University of California, Irvine</div><div>Email: <a href="mailto:zhipengh@uci.edu" target="_blank">zhipengh@uci.edu</a></div><div>Office: Calit2 Building Room 2402</div><div><br></div><div>OpenStack, OPNFV, OpenDaylight, OpenCompute Aficionado</div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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