Cyborg

Overview

Cyborg (previously known as Nomad) is an OpenStack project that aims to provide a general purpose management framework for acceleration resources (i.e. various types of accelerators such as GPU, FPGA, ASIC, NP, SoCs, NVMe/NOF SSDs, ODP, DPDK/SPDK and so on).

Projects

Cyborg

Official name	OpenStack Accelerator
Source code	https://github.com/openstack/cyborg
Bug tracker
Feature tracker
Developer doc

We align with the official release schedule:https://releases.openstack.org/, with three milestones. We use storyboard to track all bugs and features. The cyborg basic board page[], with three worklists, track specific tasks in the three milestones.

Python Cyborg Client

Source code	https://github.com/openstack/python-cyborgclient
Bug tracker
Feature tracker

Cyborg Tempest Plugin

Source code	https://github.com/openstack/cyborg-tempest-plugin
Bug tracker
Feature tracker

People

• PTL
  • Yumeng Bao(Yumeng)
• Cyborg Code Reviewers
  • cyborg-core-team
• Blueprint Czar (responsible for maintenance of Cyborg's blueprint lists)
  • Same as PTL
• [Release Management Liaisons]
  • Same as PTL
• [Oslo Liaisons]
  • Shaohe Feng(shaohe_feng)
• [QA Liaisons]
  • Chenke(chenker)
• [Doc Liaisons]
  • Yumeng Bao(Yumeng)
• Nova Group Liaisons(works with nova team around Cyborg things)
  • Bailing Zhang(brinzhang)
  • Yumeng Bao(Yumeng)
• Neutron Group Liaisons(works with neutron team around Cyborg things)
  • Shaohe Feng(shaohe_feng)
  • Xinran Wang(Xinran)

Meeting/Materials

• Please refer to Meetings/CyborgTeamMeeting for Cyborg weekly meeting agenda and logistic info
• Please refer to Cyborg/Materials for additional materials regarding Cyborg.
• Please refer to Cyborg/MeetingLogs for meeting minutes archives.
• Please refer to Cyborg/FirstContact for local on-boarding meeting agenda and logistic info

General Resources

Documentation

NOTE: Please be aware that this page is incomplete, we will continually update this page! We will not remove this note until we think that all the imperative documentation is done here. If you need any help in using Cyborg, please just ping in the IRC channel #openstack-cyborg.

• Accelerator API reference
• End User Guide

Release Process

• cyborg (and other projects under the compute program in governance) are released through the standard openstack release process: https://github.com/openstack/releases/blob/master/README.rst
• All cyborg releasenotes
• Latest cyborg releasenote

Resources for Contributors

Contributor Documentation

• General Developer's Guide
• Cyborg Architecture and long term plan Docs
• When you need a spec vs a blueprint
• cyborg-spec process
• Bug Triage Process and Bug tag owners

History

• Previous PTLs
  • Zhipeng Huang, Rocky Release

Cyborg got to a rolling start in 2018 led by Howard (Zhipeng) Huang. Under his leadership, we established the basic infrastructure for sustained growth, resulting in our official release in Rocky.

• • li_liu
  • Sundar

• Previous or current core reviewers:

Team Photo