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Hi all

More volunteers for you - myself (Calum Loudon) and Colin Tregenza Dancer from Metaswitch (http://metaswitch.com).

We're new to OpenStack development, so a bit of context: we develop software for the telecoms space, ranging from low-level network stacks to voice applications.  We see enormous interest in the idea of the "software Telco", with telecoms providers now really understanding cloud and wanting to move to it; you may have heard of Network Functions Virtualisation (NFV), a big push by the telecoms industry to define how this will work, and which implicitly assumes OpenStack as the underlying cloud platform.

NFV needs a few things OpenStack doesn't currently provide, mainly due to the extremely high reliability & bandwidth/latency requirements of Telco-grade apps compared to typical Enterprise-grade data apps, and we want to contribute code to help close those gaps.  From what I learnt in Hong Kong, I think that initially means richer placement policies (e.g. more advanced (anti)affinity rules; locating VMs "close" to storage or networks; globally-optimal placement) and if I'm following this list correctly then I think this activity is the first step towards that goal, enabling in future phases Yathi's vision of instance groups with smart resource placement [1] which closely resembles our own.

So we'd love to help in whatever way is needed - please count us in.

cheers

Calum

[1] https://docs.google.com/document/d/1IiPI0sfaWb1bdYiMWzAAx0HYR6UqzOan_Utgml5W1HI/edit


Calum Loudon
Director of Architecture
Metaswitch Networks
 
P   +44 (0)208 366 1177
E   calum.loudon at metaswitch.com


-----Original Message-----
From: Robert Collins [mailto:robertc at robertcollins.net] 
Sent: Friday, November 22, 2013 4:59 AM
To: OpenStack Development Mailing List
Subject: [openstack-dev] [Nova][Schduler] Volunteers wanted for a modest proposal for an external scheduler in our lifetime

https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/icehouse-external-scheduler

I'm looking for 4-5 folk who have:
 - modest Nova skills
 - time to follow a fairly mechanical (but careful and detailed work
needed) plan to break the status quo around scheduler extraction

And of course, discussion galore about the idea :)

Cheers,
Rob

-- 
Robert Collins <rbtcollins at hp.com>
Distinguished Technologist
HP Converged Cloud

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