Linux-on-NUMA Technical Meeting Time: 9:00AM - 4:30PM on Monday, March 26. Location: O'Hare Hilton Conference Room 2051 (2nd Floor) O'Hare Airport / Chicago, IL USA (See below for directions and lodging information.) Purpose: Come to agreement on Linux-on-NUMA technical goals and priorities. If time permits begin planning/assigning work items. Who should attend: Technical people with NUMA/Linux experience who are committed to making Linux run well on NUMA platforms. Up to two people from each company are invited. Affiliation: This is part of the Linux Scaling Effort (see http://lse.sourceforge.net). More technical information available at: ftp://lse.sourceforge.net/pub/lse/NUMA-APIs.tar.gz Draft Agenda (all times CST) 9:00 Continental Breakfast. 9:30 Introductions and statement of goals: -one- NUMA API/implementation for Linux!!!. [Paul McKenney presenting.] 10:00 SGI experience with NUMA and Linux, proposed areas of focus for Linux NUMA effort. Historical perspective from IRIX. Discussion. [John Wright and Kanoj Sarcar presenting. 11:00 SuSE experience with NUMA and Linux on Alpha CPUs. Discussion. [Andrea Arcangeli presenting.] 11:30 Fujitsu experience with NUMA and Linux. Discussion. [Kouichi Kumon presenting.] 12:00 Get lunch. Please send any food restrictions (e.g., vegetarian) to pmckenne@us.ibm.com by Friday March 9. 12:30 Intel chipset/platform supporting NUMA and Linux. [Sunil Saxena presenting.] 1:00 NEC's experience with NUMA and expectation on Linux NUMA discussion. [Kimio Suganama and Fumio Aono presenting.] 1:30 HP's experience with NUMA. Historical perspective from HP/UX project. [Bjorn Helgaas presenting.] 2:00 IBM's experience with NUMA and Linux. Historical perspective from DYNIX/ptx, AIX, and IBM Research projects. [Hubertus Franke and Paul McKenney presenting.] 2:30 Discussion of goals, architectures, priorities of NUMA features, and NUMA APIs. We need to come out of this discussion agreeing that we will work together on -one- NUMA API/implementation for Linux, and it would be good to agree on the highest-priority NUMA features. If we can break out some work items and get people starting work on them, so much the better! 4:15 Set date and medium (face-to-face, teleconference, or email) of the next meeting. 4:30 Close. We will make the most progress if people discussing existing NUMA APIs, hardware, and implementations can make them available in advance to the group. Any of us can of course choose to keep this information proprietary, but in that case it will not be available to the Linux community, which will have the final judgement on our work. Lodging: O'Hare Hilton. Ask for "NUMA-on-Linux" rate ($179/night). You will probably need to spell out the "NUMA-on-Linux". Reservations can be made using this rate starting on the evening of Wednesday March 9 through the evening of Tuesday March 22 (CST). Contact: P.O. Box 66414 Chicago, IL 60666 USA ph. 1-800-HILTONS (1-800-445-8667) ph. 773-686-8000 FAX. 773-601-2873 http://www.hilton.com/hotels/CHIOHHH/index.html Map: http://www.hilton.com/hotels/CHIOHHH/activemap.html Directions: Fly to Chicago O'Hare Airport. Walk out of the terminal, the O'Hare Hilton is right across the street, in the airport itself. Meals: Continental breakfast and lunch provided. Please send any dietary restrictions to pmckenne@us.ibm.com by Friday, March 9. List of attendees confirmed thus far: ak@suse.de Andi Kleen andrea@suse.de Andrea Arcangeli frankeh@us.ibm.com Hubertus Franke kanoj@engr.sgi.com Kanoj Sarcar pmckenne@us.ibm.com Paul E. McKenney bjorn_helgaas@hp.com Bjorn Helgaas jwright@engr.sgi.com John Wright beckman@turbolabs.com Pete Beckman sunil.saxena@intel.com Sunil Saxena Jerry.Harrow@Compaq.com Jerry Harrow kumon@flab.fujitsu.co.jp Kouichi Kumon aono@ed2.com1.fc.nec.co.jp Fumio Aono suganuma@hpc.bs1.fc.nec.co.jp Kimio Suganama woodman@missioncriticallinux.com Larry Woodman