Hardware Acceleration WG, meeting #16

[vmayoral]

Hi all,

Happy to call for the 16th Hardware Acceleration Working Group meeting (LinkedIn event) to be held on 2023-03-28T16:00:00Z (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
  • ROS 2 Hardware Acceleration WG, meeting #14
  • ROS 2 Hardware Acceleration WG, meeting #15

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

• Time: 2023-03-28T16:00:00Z
• Duration: 30 minutes
• Coordinates: https://meet.google.com/ryu-byss-aji
  • LinkedIn event
  • Google Calendar event
• Preliminary agenda:
  1. Welcome
  2. Old business and progress review
     • 2.1 Updates on key WG projects
     • 2.2 REP-2014 final push before submission for acceptance
  3. New business
     • 3.1 CI/CD infrastructure for performance benchmarking
  4. Q&A

[vmayoral]

Reminder, meeting’s in a few hours. We’ll mostly be touching on updates in RobotPerf this time.

[mxenya]

Thanks for the reminder.