init meeting minutes report

MeetingMinutes.md

+# Meeting Minutes
+
+## Aug 7
+
+---
+
+### Action Items
+
+1. Study prevalent distributed FS and Techniques:
+    - Dynamo
+    - Chord/Pastry Partitioning/Routing protocols
+    - Raft consensus protocol
+    - Redis
+    - Memcache
+    - List of all possible actions that can be done on the smartNICs?
+2. Map these actions to a distributed FS
+    - For eg. Raft protocol - can some parts of Raft be done by a smartNICs?
+3. State management required in a tiered storage?
+4. What tiered storage should be used? What all can the smartNIC directly interact with? NVMe over fabric, RDMA?
+
+## Aug 13
+
+---
+
+Building a KV store for Metadata
+Metadata is stored in a KV store:
+Metadata is required for caching
+
+1. Metadata properties:
+    - Parts of the metadata change very quickly (timestamp), 
+    - Always consistent
+
+2. Do we need RDMA to send the metadata response? Profiling?
+
+3. Change 'Central Server' to a 'Logical repository'
+
+4. We can't use something like 'consistent hashing' for actual files, because load
+5. p4 and micro-C
+6. LSM trees on smartNICs
+7. Do we have a tiered storage setup?
+
+### Action Items
+
+1. [Saksham, Nilanjan] ~~Study other partitioning algorithms used by systems like RAMCloud/Redis~~: **Done**
+    - Routing cost is not critical in a closed HPC system
+    - Summarize the paper in a report
+2. [Saksham, Nilanjan] Understand basics of P4/microC, and how to build for the netronome smartNIC - **In Progress**
+3. [Prof. Kulkarni] Setup another machine with a smartNIC - **In Progress**
+4. [Prof. Bellur] Update regarding virtual lab from Huawei - **In Progress**
+5. [Pramod] ~~Read and document NVMM literature like Orion and Octopus~~ **Done**
+
+## Aug 21
+
+---
+
+1. Should we test RAMCloud on a local cluster? Should focus on the following aspects:
+    - What parts of the design can be delegated to the smartNIC?
+    - Can our intended workload fit entirely in memory?
+    - Can NVMMs be leveraged in the design?
+    - Can we further optimize aspects corresponding to the specifics of our workload?
+        - For eg. assuming file system metadata as the usecase
+
+### Action Items
+
+1. [Saksham, Nilanjan, Pramod] Prepare a document to categorize different potential dist. stores based on the literature already studied
+    - Find survey papers on this
+    - Dynamo, RAMCloud, Chord/Pastry routing, Consistency protocols, Octopus/Orion/Nova
+2. [Prof. Kulkarni, Prof. Bellur] Meeting with Huawei:
+    - Understand their requirements better/ establish a PoC from their end
+    - Virtual Lab to test systems
+3. [Prof. Kulkarni] Establish a git repo to collect literature survey documents + other experiments
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