Scope:

The purpose of this page is to provide a process for submitting requests to Product Management to determine next steps, request inclusion in the product, or escalate for further approval. Requests will be submitted in a standard format (illustrated below) to the Product Manager, at which time they will be added to the agenda of the Product Management Meeting. Please make sure to include any stakeholders that will be impacted, as well as those necessary for reaching a clear decision.

New requests can be submitted to the Product Manger via email (micah@intel.com).

Product Management Meeting Agenda:

TBA

Table of Contents:

Name	Description	Priority
SAM (Service Assurance Management) Integration for IML	Monitoring features for IML that tie into Intel Platform	Low
Lustre Client for Xeon Phi	Allows Xeon Phi to connect to lustre storage cluster	Med
Differentiated Storage Services	Allows SSD Caching based on defined client profiles, caching done at MDS/OSS	High
IML Installer Improvements	Add checks to validate install environment, improve robustness, and output functional error messages when issues are encountered

Title	SAM (Service Assurance Management) integration for IML
Type	Proof of Concept
Description	Service Assurance Management is designed to provide QoS monitoring, metering, and performance analysis of nodes on a number of metrics (CPU, memory, IO) using a common platform node agent when used with IA platforms.
Purpose	Provides increased feature set when used with Intel hardware, as well as giving more data about bottlenecks and server usage.
Next Steps	Allocate a resource to work with the SAM team to setup a SAM scheduler and Node Collectors on an IEEL system and test basic functionality. Intended outcome would be to gather information about the usefulness of the data and potention benefits to IEEL product line.
Priority	Low
Creator	Micah Bhakti
Required Attendees	Micah Bhakti, Mrittika Ganguli (SAM team), Dan Ferber (or SE team resource)
Status	Open

Title	Xeon Phi Supported Lustre Client
Type	Feature
Description	Xeon Phi uses an embeded Linux OS on the card. We would like to add support for the Phi to access the Lustre FS based on Phi addoption in HPC as well as the Enterprise Technical Computing potential. To do this we will either need to support the Lustre client on the Phi Linux OS, or on the host and allow client Phi's to access the FS through the host.
Purpose	Provides Lustre FS access to Xeon Phi co-processors.
Next Steps	Lustre 2.4 working on Phi with Ethernet (MPSS 2.1), IB support waiting on new OFED stack (WW39). TT-1346 will enable automatic Lustre build with RPM's, under review now. Performance is still not where we want through virtual ethernet.
Priority	Med
Creator	Micah Bhakti
Required Attendees	Micah Bhakti, Dmitry Eremin, Oleg Droken, Peter Jones
Status	Open

Title	Differentiated Storage Services
Type	Feature
Description	DSS runs as a service on the storage server (MDS or OSS) allocating data to tiered storage based on metadata. Profiles are created and client-specific, which allow data to be sorted to SSD or HDD storage based on the performance-optimized profiles.
Purpose	Improves lustre performance for critical workloads, as well as potentially improving small-file IO.
Next Steps	DSS needs to be backported to current RHEL/CentOS kernel, followed by benchmarking and evaluation of test profiles for specific workloads. Following this we can define the impact and required engineering to integrate into the product.
Priority	High
Creator	Micah Bhakti
Required Attendees	Micah Bhakti, Michael Mesnier, Christian Black, Mikhail Pershin
Status	Open

Title	IML Installer Improvements
Type	Feature
Description	Productization of IML installer including environment validation (checking to make server meets requirements) and error handling with clear user output.
Purpose	IML install was not developed holistically and is not fully integrated into testing. The result is that it can be error-prone and difficult to troubleshoot when an issue is encountered. The purpose of these improvements would then be to deliver a robust installer which is fully validated, and has clear and "easy to troubleshoot" error reporting mechanisms.
Next Steps	Add to IEEL v1.1 scope for review and assignment.
Priority	High
Creator	Micah Bhakti
Required Attendees	Micah Bhakti, Michael Macdonald, Keith Mannthey
Status	Open