Meeting minutes status: Draft (pending approval)

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Date/Time

August 3rd, 2020. 10am ET

Attendees

Name	Organisation	Github ID
Rob Underwood	FINOS	brooklynrob
Alvin Shih	Morgan Stanley	alvin-c-shih
Aaron Davies	Morgan Stanley	adavies42
James McLeod (Unlicensed)	FINOS	mcleo-d
Jonny Press	AquaQ Analytics	jonnypress
Peter Gyorok	Morgan Stanley	gyorokpeter
Tim Beletskiy	JP Morgan
Gary Davies	AquaQ Analytics	drgdavies

Agenda

Time	Item	Who	Notes from the Meeting
5 min	Convene & roll call.	All
5 min	Review and approve minutes from last meeting.	All	Found some additional notes from last meeting. Will update and have the vote at the September call.
5 min	"Studio for kdb+" updates. Features in the pipeline? Icon status? FYI: May be viable to incorporate Creative Commons-licensed materials into FINOS projects. FINOS will look at it more closely when the need arises.	All	Icon designer on vacation. Some internal review / tweaking to take place. Will be released shortly after that.
5 min	FINOS Open Developer Platform. Might as well go with minutes in it since it's the way forward. Can try to convert non-minutes Wiki content to Markdown with Pandoc. Curious about manual override of Attendee List in case: banks block login to GitHub unless named on the CCLA attendees lazy / paranoid about persistent login to GitHub	All	ODP (i.e., Github Actions Powered) meeting minutes need to be set up by Maurizio Pillitu and James McLeod (Unlicensed). See this issue, https://github.com/finos/open-developer-platform/issues/161 , which tracks that.
25 min	MemVerge vs qclone. "AquaQuarantine: MemVerge and kdb+" video suggested use cases where MemVerge might be used in a kdb+ plant. Shared memory pages sounds like something qclone can do for free without exotic hardware. Tease apart the use cases and see if they're interesting enough to put out the qclone plugin and cooperatively develop wrapper functions to support agreed-upon use cases. For cases that qclone doesn't work, investigate alternatives such as: https://github.com/trishume/telefork https://github.com/HewlettPackard/criu-pmem	All	Use cases that attendees found interesting: Debugging complex memory state with high computation. EOD save down. Snapshot to a file or across a network. Worker processes for heavy compute like feature engineering. qclone limitations: Doesn't offer any resilience in the face of host crash. Questions: Process management for clones? Containerization? Will try to get qclone PoC released for experimentation. Discussion pivoted to Cloud. Morgan Stanley and JPMC looking for ways to simplify deployment of kdb+ on the cloud. Tools to manage the cooperating processes typical of a kdb+ plant? FINOS Cloud Service Certification currently more about standards. No actual code. Related links: https://www.wsj.com/articles/morgan-stanley-leads-bank-group-on-cloud-data-standards-11596101401 https://github.com/finos/cloud-service-certification/wiki
5 min	AOB	All

Action Items

James McLeod (Unlicensed) to reach out to TimeBase team to see if they want to present again
- Discuss as project how, if TimeBase were contributed, whether 1) it could be part of this project (under the moniker of TSDB), 2) as a separate project, and (not mutually exclusively), 3) create a Time Series Database Special Interest Group
Maurizio Pillitu and James McLeod (Unlicensed) to set up Github Action ODP meeting minutes - See github issue https://github.com/finos/open-developer-platform/issues/161 which includes a timeline.
James McLeod (Unlicensed) to reach out to both Cloud Cert community, and to DB, to see if either the Cloud Cert project or in DB if there be more previously unidentified Kdb project interest