Hardware Acceleration WG, meeting #14

[vmayoral]

Hello all,

We are calling for the 14th Hardware Acceleration Working Group meeting (LinkedIn event) to be held on 2023-01-31T17:00:00Z (your browser’s time). In case you missed past meetings, here’s the ROS 2 Hardware Acceleration Working Group list with past recordings the WG is keeping. As for other working group resources, find them below or in the WG community repo:

ROS 2 Hardware Acceleration Working Group (HAWG) resources

• Objective: Drive creation, maintenance and testing of acceleration kernels on top of open standards (C++ and OpenCL) for optimized ROS 2 and Gazebo interactions over different compute substrates (including FPGAs, GPUs and ASICs).
• Reference hardware platform: Kria K26 Adaptive SOM
• Meetings invite group: ROS 2 Hardware Acceleration WG Google Group
• Instant messaging: Matrix community (Matrix is an open network for secure, decentralized communication).
• Backlog management: DEPRECATED (use official backlog): Phase 1: tools, examples, benchmarking and first demonstrators · GitHub
• Github organization: ros-acceleration
• Meeting minutes: HAWG minutes
• Discourse tag: wg-acceleration
• Previous meetings:
  • ROS 2 Hardware Accelerating WG, meeting #1
  • ROS 2 Hardware Acceleration WG, meeting #2
  • ROS 2 Hardware Acceleration WG, meeting #3
  • ROS 2 Hardware Acceleration WG, meeting #4
  • ROS 2 Hardware Acceleration WG, meeting #5
  • ROS 2 Hardware Acceleration WG, meeting #6
  • ROS 2 Hardware Acceleration WG, meeting #7
  • ROS 2 Hardware Acceleration WG, meeting #8
  • ROS 2 Hardware Acceleration WG, meeting #9
  • ROS 2 Hardware Acceleration WG, meeting #10
  • ROS 2 Hardware Acceleration WG, meeting #11
  • ROS 2 Hardware Acceleration WG, meeting #12
  • ROS 2 Hardware Acceleration WG, meeting #13

The goal of this meeting is to review the progress we have made over the last year, report on the current status of the group, and discuss our goals for the upcoming year. The meeting is scheduled to be 30 minutes. Coordinates for the meeting below:

• Time: 2023-01-31T17:00:00Z
• Duration: 30 minutes
• Coordinates: meet.google.com/hov-uoxj-nzg
  • LinkedIn event
• Preliminary agenda:
  1. Welcome
  2. Old business and progress review
     • 2.1 2022 progress review and dissemination report
     • 2.2 Updates on key WG projects
     • 2.3 other updates, if any
  3. New business
     • 3.1 2023 WG goals
  4. Q&A

[vmayoral]

Friendly reminder, meeting’s in a few hours (2023-01-31T17:00:00Z).

As a heads up, we’ll be touching on some preliminary results regarding the RobotPerf project:

ID	Graph	Benchmark summary	Datasource	Metric	Intel x86_64[1]
a1		Perception computational graph composed by 2 dataflow-connected Components, rectify and resize.	perception/image	latency (ms)	21.08 ms (31-01-2023)

Additional information to be discussed

Barcharts	Trace

	Benchmark Mean	Benchmark RMS	Benchmark Max	Benchmark Min	Mean	RMS	Max	Min
RobotPerf benchmark	13.67 ms	13.92 ms	21.08 ms	6.83 ms	13.92 ms	14.15 ms	21.40 ms	6.92 ms

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1. Intel(R) Core™ i7-8700K CPU @ 3.70GHz, 64 GB RAM ↩︎

[vmayoral]

Thanks all for a great meeting.

00:00 Welcome
03:24 2022 progress review and dissemination report
10:14 Updates on Robotics MCU project (robo-v-mcu)
17:08 Updates on RobotPerf, robotics computing benchmarking suite
27:36 WG goals for 2023
29:47 Q&A

Minutes | Linkedin

[Davis_Ogunsina]

It was a great meeting.I’m glad i attended the meeting.

[Halifcan]

Thanks Ros I really appreciate it