Born out of ETSI NFV IFA004 and OPNFV DPACC requirements, the Nomad project aims to fulfill them and provide a distributed acceleration management as a service framework for OpenStack.

With Openstack, currently people could already utilize acceleration techniques like SR-IOV, PCI pass-through and DPDK via Nova and Neutron. In NFV environments, on the other hand, OpenStack should also be able to manage heterogeneous accelerators (i.e., re-configurable FPGAs, GPUs, etc) life cycle and schedule them to fulfill VNF requirements such as transparent live migration.

However, Nomad VMs' acceleration is not related only to NFV. As a matter of fact, accelerators are extensively used also in other environments, e.g., storage and big data, with many new solutions such as SPDK, NVMe and pmem.

The Nomad project will serve as a standalone module to provide VMs accelerator scheduling and life cycle management, aiming to make OpenStack accelerated workloads truly nomadic for NFV, storage, big data, etc.

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