meeting minutes sep 11 (1)

MeetingMinutes.md

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 6. Setup related issues
 7. FS vs Object Stores vs Key Value stores
 
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 ## Sep 11
 
 ### Discussion
 
-1. Huawei PoC: 
+1. Huawei PoC:  
     - No clear requirements, its a whiteboard for us to experiment
     - Virtual Lab is taking some time
 
 2. SmartNIC:
     - Different memories
 
-3. How are smartNICs used for KV?
-    - What parts of get/put are handled by the smartNIC?
-    - Architecture considerations based around smartNIC?
+3. Design a Distributed KV store which leverages smartNICs:
+    - What functionality does the smartNIC offers? (TODO)
+        - 'Early' processing
+    - What functions of the KV store can be offloaded to the smartNIC?
+        - What parts of get/put are handled by the smartNIC?
         - basic communication: heartbeats
-        - advanced stuff: consensus protocols?
-    - Take a concrete KV Store, add smartNIC functionality
+        - advanced processing: consensus protocols?
+    - Take a concrete KV Store, add smartNIC functionality
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+        - RAMCloud + smartNIC