This short deck explains Atomic Rules use of Jenkins for FPGA hardware and software CI/CD. A 100 GbE overlay is added

1. JENKINS BENCH AT ATOMIC RULES
SHEP SIEGEL
FEBRUARY 2023

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JENKINS BASICS
• We use Jenkin’s CI/CD to run our regressions on new commits
• We test our software builds for target OSes
• We test our release builds
• We use FPGA vendor tools (Quartus/Vivado) to build bitstreams
• What we’ve added
• Each Jenkins machine with a DUT FPGA board can be
- Cold or Warm rebooted
- FPGA bitstreams loaded / reloaded
- FPGA test applications run and evaluated
- Per DUT and Per Bitstream Tests

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JENKINS HARDWARE
• Atomic Rules uses about 12 workstations and servers for Jenkins CI/CD
• There are four 30A 120V Power Distribution Units (PDUs) for mains power
• They are connected on 16 Port 1G LAN for control

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JENKINS PIPELINE - TYPICAL

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JENKINS NODES - TYPICAL

6. ATOMIC RULES
100G JENKINS OVERLAY

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ALL 100G PORTS ARE INTERCONNECTED
• Between all the machines there are ~27 active 100G ports
• They are all connected to an NVIDIA 32-port 100G SN2700 switch
• Running NVIDIA ONYX 3.10.4100 (as of 2023-02-21)
• Can create test-cases that route any combination of sources and destinations
• Switch in the middle provides additional visibility
• Can easily pick off flows and route to a monitor port

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CURRENT 100G ROSTER
100G Interop Diversity
• 3 - NVIDIA ASIC NICs (CX5/CX6)
• 3 - AMD/Xilinx US+ Alveo FPGA boards
• 5 - Intel Agilex 7 FPGA boards

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FUTURE WORK
200G/400G Expansion
•50G PAM4 capable on some NICs and FPGAs today
•200G MAC on NVIDIA CX6, Intel Agilex 7
•400G MAC on Intel 7 I-Series
•Need a $ switch upgrade to roll this out
800G/1600G Expansion
•Not planned in CY2023

10. THANK YOU
THANK YOU
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