First-ever Corundum Developer Meeting: the Future of Corundum

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Announcing the first-ever Corundum Developer Meeting!

If you're interested in using Corundum, hearing about the future of the project, or perhaps even getting involved in the project in some way, you're welcome to attend.

Details: meeting will take place via Zoom on Monday, July 12 2021 and 9:00 AM PDT.

Link with the zoom meeting information: https://github.com/corundum/corundum/wiki/Corundum-Developer-Meeting

More detailed information on the future of corundum: https://github.com/corundum/corundum/wiki/Future-of-Corundum

If you are interested in getting involved in some way, please go to https://github.com/corundum/corundum/wiki/New-Contributor-Guide , get on the mailing list, and fill out the survey.

 

If you're not already aware, Corundum is an open-source, high-performance, FPGA-based NIC. It currently supports operation at up to 100 Gbps line rate on several different FPGA boards and supports high-precision time synchronization and transmit scheduling.

I'm planning on turning it into a platform for in-network computing, which will add more streamlined support for running application logic on the FPGA, as well as potentially implementing a protocol called RDMA in the form of RoCEv2. RDMA, or remote direct memory access, is becoming increasingly common for low-latency, low-overhead communication within datacenters. GPUDirect and NVMeOF are also built on top of RDMA.

Implementing RDMA is going to require quite a bit of work spanning both hardware and software. If you're looking for a project to work on and this sounds interesting, please follow the instructions here.

 

Couple of additional things to mention:

• No need to be an expert in NIC design, RDMA, etc. When I started working on Corundum, I had no idea how NICs worked, much of anything about PCIe, or how to write device drivers. Even now, I have never actually used RDMA before. It will be a learning process for everyone. I will do my best to make myself available to help people get up to speed.

• Access to development tools and development hardware is a solvable problem. If you're seriously interested in contributing, there are options that I can look in to.

 

Edit: I may also be recording the meeting as it seems like there are a few folks that won't be able to make it.