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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in">All, thank you for attending the OFA Board meeting today.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in">Please see the minutes below – please feel free to send corrections to
<a href="mailto:ofa_boardplus@lists.openfabrics.org">ofa_boardplus@lists.openfabrics.org</a> to be added to the record.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in">Thank you,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in">Phil Cayton (OFA Vice-Chair).<o:p></o:p></p>
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<li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3"><span style="font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">Attendance:<o:p></o:p></span></li><ul style="margin-top:0in" type="circle">
<li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo3"><span style="font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">Intel, HPE, FTI, LLNL, IBM, Redhat, Sandia National Lab, OFA Chair<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
<li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3"><span style="font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">Introducing/Welcoming new board representative Korry Nguyen (RedHat)<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3"><span style="font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">Financials update (John B.)<o:p></o:p></span></li><ul style="margin-top:0in" type="circle">
<li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo3"><span style="font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">Membership update<o:p></o:p></span></li><ul style="margin-top:0in" type="square">
<li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l0 level3 lfo3"><span style="font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">ORNL has not renewed<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l0 level3 lfo3"><span style="font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">Huawei has not yet renewed –
<span style="background:lime;mso-highlight:lime">Doug Ledford to get an definitive membership renewal answer</span><o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
<li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo3"><span style="font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">Ended 2024 with $22.7 in the bank<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo3"><span style="font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">$117K received as dues in 2025<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo3"><span style="font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">$10K reserved in budget to shut down FSDP<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo3"><span style="font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">$10.5K reserved for webinars/seminars<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo3"><span style="font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">Total budget is $95K for 2025<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
<li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3"><span style="font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">Shutting down the FSDP (Doug L.)<o:p></o:p></span></li><ul style="margin-top:0in" type="circle">
<li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo3"><span style="font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">Would save ~$39K/year<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo3"><span style="font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">Disposition of 11 servers (10 1U, 1 larger ‘build’ server), 1x 100Gbps switch, 1x 20Gbps IB switch, 1x OPA switch, 2x 48 port 1Gbps switches<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo3"><span style="font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;background:lime;mso-highlight:lime">Doug L. to contact UNH-IOL about shutting down the FSDP<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo3"><span style="font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;background:lime;mso-highlight:lime">Doug L. to contact the owners of the donated equipment to request preferred disposition (ship back and
to where, or ‘e-waste’)<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
<li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3"><span style="font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">OFA Membership (Doug L.)<o:p></o:p></span></li><ul style="margin-top:0in" type="circle">
<li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo3"><span style="font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">FTI joined<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo3"><span style="font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">ORNL has not renewed<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo3"><span style="font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">Huawei has not yet renewed<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
<li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3"><span style="font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">OFMF WG update:<o:p></o:p></span></li><ul style="margin-top:0in" type="circle">
<li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo3"><span style="font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">Sunfish (Mike A.)<o:p></o:p></span></li><ul style="margin-top:0in" type="square">
<li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l0 level3 lfo3"><span style="font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">New development and coding work, including debugging and refactoring code, code documentation, including better merging discipline<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l0 level3 lfo3"><span style="font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">Sunfish/FLUX integration – PoC FLUX prolog allocation of NVMe devices and later on tighter on integration for FLUX job allocation of available
devices<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l0 level3 lfo3"><span style="font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">Plan to update Sunfish documentation and refactor Sunfish repositories<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l0 level3 lfo3"><span style="font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">Mike to give an internal Sandia talk WW07 and plans for another international talks ‘soon’<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
<li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo3"><span style="font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">WG Co-Chair nomination: Russ Herrell (Phil C.)<o:p></o:p></span></li><ul style="margin-top:0in" type="square">
<li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l0 level3 lfo3"><span style="font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">Nomination (Mike, Phil) for Russ H. as Co-Chair of the OFMFWG<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l0 level3 lfo3"><span style="font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">Passed without objection/abstention<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
<li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo3"><span style="font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">Doug Ledford to determine if he is allowed to be the HPE OFMF WG representative.<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo3"><span style="font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">Supercomputing ’25 (Mike A.)<o:p></o:p></span></li><ul style="margin-top:0in" type="square">
<li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l0 level3 lfo3"><span style="font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">Mike is on the SC25 planning committee<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
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<li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3"><span style="font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">Libfabric update (Phil C.)<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3"><span style="font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">2025 Webinar Series – Nereus Program Proposal with Board for review
<o:p></o:p></span></li><ul style="margin-top:0in" type="circle">
<li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo3"><span style="font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">Cadence: either 6x or 4x per year<o:p></o:p></span></li><ul style="margin-top:0in" type="square">
<li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l0 level3 lfo3"><span style="font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;background:lime;mso-highlight:lime">Agenda item for March OFA Board meeting:</span><span style="font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif"> Proposal
that OFA move from a conference to a series of webinars (for at least 2025)<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
<li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo3"><span style="font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">Ideas for webinar / panel topics (MWG determines proposed list; Board reviews)</span><span style="font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></li><ul style="margin-top:0in" type="square">
<li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l0 level3 lfo3"><span style="font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">RDMA direct to GPU (Feeding the AI Beast) – potential collaboration with NVMe, SNIA, other groups<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l0 level3 lfo3"><span style="font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">Sunfish development
<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l0 level3 lfo3"><span style="font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">Sunfish Core<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l0 level3 lfo3"><span style="font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">Sunfish hardware agents<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l0 level3 lfo3"><span style="font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">Sunfish clients (e.g. fuzzball, Kubernetes)<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l0 level3 lfo3"><span style="font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">Sunfish use cases (e.g. quantum compute nodes as CDI resources, I/O topics, Cerebras wafer scale nodes)
<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l0 level3 lfo3"><span style="font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">Flux Workload Manager / Sunfish integration
<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l0 level3 lfo3"><span style="font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">User Adoption Stories
<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l0 level3 lfo3"><span style="font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">Libfabric & UEC
<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l0 level3 lfo3"><span style="font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">OFA Basics / Intro / What it will look like in the future
<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l0 level3 lfo3"><span style="font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">Guest: AI infrastructure expert to give a technical talk<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
<li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo3"><span style="font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;background:lime;mso-highlight:lime">Cayton to send mail to OFA Board Plus with this list as a potential topic list for webinars and/or conference<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo3"><span style="font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;background:lime;mso-highlight:lime">Motion to adjourn (OFA Chair, HPE)<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
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