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Summary(required)

Separating knowhere Knowhere from Milvus project make Milvus easy to run on Mac or other laptops, due to decoupling knowhere that is the engine module make code structure more clear. 

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1. Current dependence

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2. Decoupling 

• The distributed layer doesn't directly depend on faiss and should access the unified interface of knowhere.
• Each index implementation should be independent.
• Move Knowhere to a new project.

2. Support compile on  MAC 

• Knowhere support a brute force search which is a kind of vector index and compiled on MAC & Ubuntu.
• Query and segcore module will depend on knowhere shared library.  

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