IEC Type 3: Android cloud native applications on Arm servers in edge for Integrated Edge Cloud (IEC) Blueprint Family

Use Case Details:

Attributes

Description

Informational

Type

New


Industry Sector

Telco, Cloud 


Business driver

  • Edge cloud requires initiatives for cloud gaming on Android platform  
  • 5G + edge bring low latency and high-throughput for cloud gaming, which improves user experience
  • More and more Android applications will migrate into edge compute platform. Building an android platform is necessary, and it's rigid demand. 


Business use cases

  Android Cloud Gaming


Business Cost - Initial Build Cost Target Objective

Using virtualization technology instead of mobile chip board on ARM server will reduce the cost of android platform.  ARM server board also let android platform more flexible and more agile.

In order to support cloud gaming and AR/VR, ARM server need have GPU inside. 

  • 2 ARM Nodes
  • Android 9.0
    • GPU (AMD, NVIDIA)
  • Android virtualization layer: Robox, docker.


Business Cost – Target Operational Objective

It more like a cloud platform, but it's specific for android application.  

  • It needs Helm and Ansible for the automation and management tools to keep operational cost lower
  • It needs to monitor the status of android system status and application status. 
  • Maintain a mixed edge platform including x86 and ARM. It's more complex
  • Kubernetes
  • Android 9.0
    • GPU (AMD, NVIDIA)
  • Host OS kernel optimization;
  • Android virtualization layer: Robox, docker.
  • GPU (AMD/NVIDIA)
  • Both ARM and X86 can support it.


Security need

Security is very important in this use case, especially for containerized android system. 


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

Cloud Gaming and AR/VR


Blueprint proposed Name

IEC Type 3: Android cloud native applications on Arm servers in edge


Initial POD Cost (capex)

2 ARM bare metal machines, 1 10G switch, 1 AMD GPU, 1 NIVIDA GPU


Scale & Type

For the smallest deployment, this requires 2 ARM bare metal machines. For large deployments, this could span to large number of bare metal machines.


Applications

Android application, such as cloud gaming, VR/AR.

Power Restrictions

N/A


Infrastructure orchestration

Host:

  • Bare Metal Provisioning:Ansible
  • OS: Ubuntu
  • GPU Driver: AMD,NVIDIA:
  • Network: OVS 
  • Android virtualization layer: Robox container
  • Host OS kernel optimization

Guest OS Andriod: 

  • GPU Driver (AMD, NVIDIA)


SDN

N/A


Workload Type

  • Android applications 


Additional Details

N/A



Blueprint was approved by the TSC on 2 Apr 2020.

Election ended on 22 April 2020- Hanyu Ding was the winner


Committer

Committer

Company

 Committer Contact Info

Committer Bio

Committer Picture

PTL

Yongsu ZhangByteDancezhangyongsu@bytedance.com


Kairui SheByteDanceshekairui@bytedance.com


Shi LeiChina Mobileshileiyj@chinamobile.com


Armtrevor.tao@arm.com


Jingzhao Ni (Arm Technology China) (Deactivated)Armjingzhao.ni@arm.com


Jianlin Lv (Arm Technology China) (Deactivated)Armjianlin.lv@arm.com


Hanyu DingChina Mobiledinghanyu@chinamobile.com

 to  

Wales Wang WeiXunMobile Intelligence Cloud Co.waleswang@runtronic.com


Ming LiNVIDIAmingl@nvidia.com


zhaoruizhebytedancezhaoruizhe@bytedance.com


Yanjun ChenChina Mobilechenyanjunyjy@chinamobile.com


 Tide WangPhytiumwanghailong@phytium.com.cn


Davy Zhang Y-Semidavy.zhang@ysemi.cn









Contributor

Contributor

Company

 Contributor Contact Info

Contributor Bio

Contributor Picture

Corey JiY-Semi Computingcorey.ji@ysemi.cn

Weiwei WangYLCloudwww@you-cloud.cn


As per the Akraino Community process and directed by TSC, a blueprint which has only one nominee for Project Technical Lead (PTL) will be the elected lead once at least one committer seconds the nomination after the close of nominations.  If there are two or more, an election will take place.



TS2280v1

TS2280v2

CPU

2x 32 core 2.4 GHz Hi1616 Processors

2x 32 core 2.6 GHz Hi1620 Processors

RAM

8x 16GB RDIMM-Tx2 

8x 16GB DDR4-DIMM

Storage

2x 1TB SSD

2x 1TB SSD

Networking

2x 1/10Gbe BASE-T (1 connected)
1x IPMI  Lights-out Management

2x 1/10Gbe SFP+ (connected)

1x IPMI / Lights-out Management

GPU

1 AMD GPU ,1 NVidia GPU

 

Servers and Switches

Server Name

IPMI Address

Public Network Address

Switch Port(s)

OS Installed

93

10.x

10.x

gigabyte-edgecore2: left 40Bbe Port 1, right 40Gbe Port 2, left 10Gbe Port 7 Breakout 1,  right 10Gbe Port 7 Breakout 2

Ubuntu 18.04

174

10.x

10.x

gigabyte-edgecore2: left 40Bbe Port 3, right 40Gbe Port 4, left 10Gbe Port 7 Breakout 3, right 10Gbe Port 7 Breakout 4

Ubuntu 18.04


BP: