IEC Type 5: SmartNIC for Integrated Edge Cloud (IEC) Blueprint Family

IEC Type 5: SmartNIC for Integrated Edge Cloud (IEC) Blueprint Family

As the beginning, we start from Kubernetes with SmartNic. In the future, we will enable Openstack and other specific features.

The feature list is in the attachment.

Use Case Details:

 

Attributes

Description

Informational

Type

New

 

Industry Sector

Edge Cloud, Telco

 

Business driver

VPC, 5G UPF can use SmartNIC to accelerate the performance.

 

Business use cases

  •  Demonstrate SmartNIC accelerated Edge stack

    • OVN-K8s in host and OVS offloaded in SmartNIC

  • Software ecosystem support for SmartNIC platform

  • Kubernetes support for networking acceleration and SmartNIC

 

Business Cost - Initial Build Cost Target Objective

  • Common drivers for x86 and Arm

  • Full DPDK support

  • Overlay support (VxLAN, GRE)

  • Hardware offload for Linux tc

  • Crypto offload drivers

 

Business Cost – Target Operational Objective

  • OVN/Open vSwitch

    • Open vSwitch offload on SmartNIC platform

  • Kubernetes

    • SmartNIC for Kubernetes

    • Huge page support

    • Node Feature Discovery

    • Related CNI projects:Multus, Cillium, SR-IOV  and OVS-DPDK

  • Storage:

    • NVMeoF interface

 

Security need

  • Crypto offload drivers

 

Regulations

N/A

 

Other restrictions

N/A

 

Additional details

N/A

 

 

Case Attributes

Description

Informational

Type

New

 

Blueprint Family - Proposed   Name

Integrated Edge Cloud (IEC)

 

Use Case

VPC, 5G UPF

 

Blueprint proposed Name

IEC Type 5: SmartNIC

 

Initial POD Cost (capex)

VPC: 1 Rack with 2 servers, each server with 1 SmartNIC

UPF: 3 servers, each server with 1 SmartNIC

 

Scale & Type

In the gateway, infrastructure service, and edge cloud

 

Applications

Short Video Applications, UPF

 

Power Restrictions

SmartNIC: 35W

 

Infrastructure orchestration

  • Bare Metal Provisioning :Ansible 

  • Kubernetes Provisioning :KuD

  • Host OS Level: 

    • Network: cilium/OVN

  • SmartNic Arm cores Level:

    • Network: cilium-BPF/ovs-vswitchd/ovs-dpdk/

  • Docker for containers and Kubelet for VMs

 

SDN

OVN, SRIOV

 

Workload Type

  • Containers

 

Additional Details

SmartNic features:

  • Needs to provide mechanism to recover from the system crashes remotely.

  • Support PXE protocol

  • Secure boot/Secure Key Storage

 

 

 

Xuan Jia is stepping down as PTL.  We need to nominate/elect a new PTL.  If you are interested in being PTL for the Smart NIc, please put a Y in the Self Nominate column.  If you are NOT interested, please make sure that you have an N in that column.

Self Nominations will end on 12 July at 11:59 pm Pacific Time.

Committer

Committer

Company

 Committer Contact Info

Committer Bio

Committer Picture

Self Nominate for PTL (Y/N)

Yongsu Zhang

ByteDance

zhangyongsu@bytedance.com

 

 

 

Peng He

ByteDance

hepeng.0320@bytedance.com

 

 

 

Xiongchun Duan

ByteDance

duanxiongchun@bytedance.com

 

 

 

Fazil Osman 

Broadcom

fazil.osman@broadcom.com

 

 

 

@JiaXuan

China Mobile

jiaxuan@chinamobile.com

 

 

 

@Song Zhu (Arm Technology China)

Arm

song.zhu@arm.com

 

 

N

@Trevor Tao (Deactivated)

Arm

trevor.tao@arm.com

 

 

 

@Jingzhao Ni (Arm Technology China) (Deactivated)

Arm

jingzhao.ni@arm.com

 

 

 

@Jianlin Lv (Arm Technology China) (Deactivated)

Arm

jianlin.lv@arm.com

 

 

 

Qihui Zhao

China Mobile

zhaoqihui@chinamobile.com

 

 

 

Sheng Wang

China Mobile

wangshengyjy@chinamobile.com

 

 

 

@Yihui Wang

China Mobile

wangyihui@chinamobile.com

 

 

Y

Yan Mou

China Mobile

muyan@chinamobile.com

 

 

 

Frankie Fan

Broadcom

frankie.fan@broadcom.com

 

 

 

David Berry

Broadcom

david.berry@broadcom.com

 

 

 

Vikram Siwach

Mobiledgex

vikram.siwach@mobiledgex.com

 

 

 

Yong Zhuang

Mellanox

yong@mellanox.com

 

 

 

Tiejun Chen

VMware

tiejunc@vmware.com

 

 

 

 @Tide Wang

Phytium

wanghailong@phytium.com.cn

 

 

 

@Fu Li

SOCNOC

li@socnoc.ai

 

 

 

@zhang zhenhuan

SOCNOC

zhangzhenhuan@socnoc.ai

 

 

Y

@jin peng

SOCNOC

jinpeng@socnoc.ai

 

 

Y

 

Contributors: 

Contributor

Contributor

Company

 Contributor Contact Info

Contributor Bio

Contributor Picture

@Tina Tsou (Deactivated)

Arm

tina.tsou@arm.com

 

 

@jin peng

SOCNOC

jinpeng@socnoc.ai

 

 

@mingfei huang

JAGUARMICRO

mingfei.huang@jaguarmicro.com

 

 

 

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