On Wed, 6 Apr 2016 16:12:16 +0800 Zhipeng Huang <zhipengh...@gmail.com> wrote:
> You are actually touching on something we have been working on. There is a > team in OPNFV DPACC project has been working acceleration related topics, > including folks from CMCC, Intel, ARM, Freescale, Huawei. We found out that > in order to have acceleration working under NFV scenrios, other than Nova > and Neutron's support, we also need a standalone service that manage > accelerators itself. > > That means we want to treat accelerators, and FPGA being an important part > of it, as a first class resource citizen and we want to be able to do life > cycle management and scheduling on acceleration resources. > > Based upon that requirement we started a new project called Nomad [1] on > Jan this year, to serve as an OpenStack service for distributed > acceleration management. > > We've just started the project, and currently discussing the first BP [2]. > We have a team working on IP-SEC based accelerator mgmt, and would love to > have more people to work on topics like FPGA. > > We also have a topic on introducing Nomad accepted in Austin Summit [3]. > > You are more than welcomed to join the conversation : ) Thanks! I'll try to attend. Nevertheless, I've briefly looked at page of project Nomad, and don't quite get it, how this might be related to cases described in this thread - i.e. providing attachable, non trivial devices as a new resources in Nova. -- Cheers, Roman Dobosz __________________________________________________________________________ OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) Unsubscribe: openstack-dev-requ...@lists.openstack.org?subject:unsubscribe http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev
