1、1|2023 SNIA.All Rights Reserved.Virtual ConferenceSeptember 28-29,2021Open Programmable Infrastructure Project IntroductionHow we can together implement DPU/IPU Infrastructure across all VendorsDr Joseph L White OPI TSC Chair&Dell Fellow/VP2|2023 SNIA.All Rights Reserved.AbstractThe Open Programmabl
2、e Infrastructure(or OPI)is an open-source effort within the Linux Foundation to develop a standard API for utilizing SmartNICs,DPUs and IPUs,and other coprocessors or processing elements.It will allow users to provision and orchestrate all devices in the same way,thus allowing them to handle many di
3、fferent devices,implement new devices,and change or replace devices without learning a new command structure.It will also allow manufacturers to create a standard API,deliver new or upgraded devices faster,and benefit from a large ecosystem.It makes learning curves for new devices shorter and implem
4、entation or software errors easier to find.It opens new markets for devices and eliminates concerns over one-of-a-kind implementations.This session will explore the goals and progress that the OPI project has undertaken.DPUs have many different use cases implemented by many different vendors.Our goa
5、l is to define a common framework for all of these devices to meet those use cases:This includes Infrastructure/workload isolation,Security,Network offload and acceleration,and Storage offload and acceleration.Over the last year since OPI joined the Linux foundation we have welcomed 14 member compan
6、ies to our project spanning the landscape from vendors,to integrators,to test infrastructure vendors,end users,as well as operating system and ISV vendors.We have sought to create common provisioning and lifecycle management frameworks,defined APIs for the management of these devices to meet the mos