We've been holding a Twitter Space weekly on Mondays at 5p for about an hour. Even though it's not (yet?) a feature of Twitter Spaces, we have been recording them all; here is the recording for our Twitter Space for November 29th, 2021.
In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal, our special guest was Arjen Roodselaar; other speakers on November 29th included Rick Altherr, Simeon Miteff, MattSci, Jason Ozolins, Thomas and Edwin Peer. (Did we miss your name and/or get it wrong? Drop a PR!)
Some of the topics we hit on, in the order that we hit them:
- @3:04 Arjen's announcement about the rack switch
- Cadence Allegro PCB editor
- @11:35
Should we do our own switch?
- "We're just going to tweak existing designs..."
- Intel Tofino 2 page
- @24:07 What makes this chip a beast?
- @33:24 Cable backplane, sleds
- @37:11 Sidecar
- @38:52
Management network (out of band)
- NC-SI network controller sideband interface wiki
Rick: A lot of the BMC style management functionality just kinda got tacked on to PC systems.
- @48:36 SDN software-defined networking wiki
- @55:12 The tofino simulator
- @59:51 Trust model, root of trust, service processor
- @1:02:31 Can the switch run independent of the PCIe host?
- @1:08:35 The journey. The time scale of these signaling components. Heat sinks and practice boards
- Happy Hanukkah!
If we got something wrong or missed something, please file a PR! Our next Twitter space will likely be on Monday at 5p Pacific Time; stay tuned to our Twitter feeds for details. We'd love to have you join us, as we always love to hear from new speakers!