Server/NIC
Welcome
Welcome to the OCP Mezzanine NIC subgroup under OCP Server Work Group. The goal of this subgroup is to form a healthy ecosystem in Mezzanine NIC space, under OCP framework.
Guideline
We are here to build a supportive, informative and inclusive community:
Supportive
- Support implementation questions
- Evaluate new use cases
Informative
- Share the latest topics and trends related to OCP Mezz NIC spec
- Share both challenges and opportunities
Inclusive
- Take community feedback and make iterations to proposal before submitting major revision to work group and IC
- Open to both adopters, and observers
Get Involved
Updates
7/14/2017
Update to deck Master Deck V5 dated 7/14
7/5/2017
See below material for tomorrow's call:
Corrected thermal model: Cases A1-A5
Corrected thermal model: Cases A6-A10
Thermal model with QSFP heat sink: Cases A1-A5
Thermal model with QSFP heat sink: Cases A6-A10
Summary of updated simulation results
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1. Updates and corrections to thermal models
2. Impact of QSFP heat sink
3. Impact of contact resistance on QSFP heat sink performance
4. Go over a few topics for discussion
6/20/2017
See below for material for tomorrow's call:
Summary of simulation results under stand-by power
--- Agenda
1. Review latest round of simulation results
2. Go over a few topics for discussion
6/6/2017
See below for material for tomorrow's call:
Updated thermal model: Cases A1-A5
Updated thermal model: Cases A6-A10
Updated thermal model: Cases D1-D8
Summary of simulation results using updated thermal models
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1. Review changes to thermal models based on feedback from the community
2. Review latest round of simulation results
3. Go over a few topics for discussion
5/16/2017
Here are the update in the past 2x weeks, and material for tomorrow's call:
Updated thermal simulation case deck:Thermal Simulation Feedback_20170517
Update thermal simulation case spreadsheet: Updated Thermal Simulation Cases_20170511
Additional questions to NIC suppliers:
- Standby(S5) power of NIC, or ratio of P_Standby / P_Max
- P_standby of Optical modules
4/28/2017
As we kicked off the discussion of Mezz thermal simulation on 4/19, here are the updates:
OCP Mezz 3.0 Thermal Simulation Description
OCP Mezz 3.0 Thermal Simulation Package
Please give your feedback in mailing list and we will talk about it on next call on 5/3.
4/17/2017
We have an updated schedule for comment and feedback:
Mezz 3.0 Survey is closed with 5 participants; Summary with company names masked can be found here:
Mezz 3.0 Survey filled 201704016
A few updates were made to the master deck: Mezz 3.0 General Update
Our next call is on 4/19/2017 Wednesday 9am PDT(2nd call of the month). As always, call-in info can be found here.
--- Agenda
1. Sync with community about schedule refresher and get feedback for schedule and milestone
2. Summary of survey
3. John Fernandes will share methodology for thermal simulation
4. Call for more feedback on a few options (9,10,11,12)
3/29/2017
1. Ramp NIC survey template version to v03 to have more exact wording. Template v03
2. Due to the limitation of mailing-list with attachment, please send the filled template to jia.ning@ocproject.net. Jia will aggregate and update to the wiki based on your selection of the confidential level (cell B6,B7 of the template v03)
3. Schedule proposal v01 is available for review and comment. A few notes:
- Overall it includes 3x stages: Information collection => Narrow down direction => work out details and 1st draft
- The v01 schedule is on the aggressive side, i.e. the best case scenario when everything goes as expected.
- Please review it, give inputs in mailing-list, and discuss in the call next week.
3/24/2017
An improved version of survey template v02 is created. All NIC suppliers are strongly recommend to participate to influence Mezz 3.0. Inputs from System supplier and Hyper-scale/CSP are welcome as well.
Agenda for next meeting (4/5)
1. Review overall Mezz 3.0 work schedule
2. Review the boundary with the context of major options
3. Pick major option branches to perform more detailed study
3/22/2017
A survey of boundary condition of typical use cases is going on.
Detail see here
Please reply to mailing-list to share your boundary condition of Mezz3.0 or write to Jia Ning
3/14/2017
1. Video of 3/17/2017 OCP Server workshop talk - Mezz 2.0 and beyond
2. Slide deck of 3/9/2017 workshop
3. Visco file for placement study
Find archive of mailing-list here
Meetings
This project meets - 2 times a Month; Defaults to 1st and 3rd Wednesday of the Month.
Call-in info and source of truth @ http://opencompute.org/community/ocp-calendars (Time zone shown: Eastern Time)
This call is open to the public.
If there is a cancellation, we will try our best to cancel >24hrs before the meeting by the calendars above.
Meeting minutes is sent out in mailing list and can be found at archive
Events
2017/3/9
OCP Engineering Workshop Sessions https://ocpussummit2017.sched.com/event/9SAa/ocp-mezzanine-nic-20-and-beyond
More information about OCP events can be found at: http://www.opencompute.org/community/events/ocp-events-calendar
Communication
- Project communication is done through the opencompute-mezz-card mailing list.
- Please make sure following the steps until you receive confirmation email and welcome email from Opencompute-mezz-card@lists.opencompute.org.
Please check your junk box and unblock Opencompute-mezz-card@lists.opencompute.org if you have trouble getting confirmation email.
- To access the mailing list archives go to: http://lists.opencompute.org/pipermail/opencompute-mezz-card/
- For general discussion, please use mailing-list above by default; This is public domain and all discussion is archived
- Reach to Jia Ning if there is strong reason not to have public discussion
Specifications and Designs
| Specification | Version | Submit Date | Contributor | License | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| OCP Mezzanine card v2.0
OCP_Mezz_2.0_rev1.00_20151215b_pub_release.pdf(2.2MB) OCP_Mezz_2.0_rev1.00_20151215b_pub_release_3D_package.zip (88MB) |
V2.0-1.0 | Dec 15, 2015 | OWFa 1.0 | Added support for x16 (quad x4), NCSI, dual QSFP+, & Quad SDP+ Accepted by OCP IC 2/24/2016 | |
| OCP Mezzanine card v0.5, original standard | V0.5 | Oct 8, 2012 | OWFa 1.0 | Defacto standard for the original network mezzanine with a x8 PCIe Gen3 interface |