Edge SpAIce CERN group meeting

Monday 4 Nov 2024, 10:00 → 11:00 Europe/Zurich

40/2-A01 (CERN)

• Attending

  • Nicolò, Noemi, Sioni, Stelios (+ caught up with Nick afterwards)

• Stelios at OBPDC

  • ESA people very interested in what we plan to do with NanoXPlore
  • SEFUW workshop March 25
  • PhotSat
    • Stelios to set up a meeting to discuss
  • Enrico Magli - Torino professor with interest in AI on FPGAs
  • A PhD student from Los Palmos expressed interest, expect to follow up and include him to FastML community

• NanoXPlore discussion

  • Purchasing process started
  • ETA end of year or early '25
  • Can access software sooner, and there is one person inside CERN already using the software (Sioni to contact)
  • Sioni to update François with more information

• Nicolò at FastML

  • Presented Edge SpAIce poster
    • Poster award 🎉
  • Abhishek Jain (AMD) was interested
  • Interested in floating point quantisation part
  • Edge SpAIce at AMLD
    • Apply for AI from the Sky track
    • Consider a second abstract for Edge track focussing on tech aspects e.g. hls4ml vs Vitis AI

• Follow up with Pauline about contributing to the website with a news article

  • Stelios and Nicolò to write about OBPDC and FastML experiences

• Noemi on DPUs

  • Presented first look at DPUs (thinking towards NanoXPlore)
  • There are some promising options
  • Next steps to proceed with trying out TVM all the way to running something on pynq-z2
  • Follow up with group of Ryan Kastner on CGRA4ML through Fast ML channels
  • Need to include Noemi in more mailing lists and meeting announcements
    • Added to FastML slack, added to hls-fml egroup
    • Sioni to contact Pauline to include Noemi in the Edge SpAIce communications

10:00 → 10:10 Report on OBPDC

Speaker: Stylianos Tzelepis (National Technical Univ. of Athens (GR))

• ESA Workshop. Last year's event Sponsored by NanoXplore
• PhotSat. Star monitoring using two telescopes that will take measurements of almost the entire sky every two days.
• More Space exploration projects
• Prof. Enrico Magli. Does a lot of onboard processing with ML, he presented:
  - A new architecture for onboard change detection based on deep learning
  - Hyperspectral Data Compression using High-Performance Embedded Space Computing
• Procurement status of NanoXplore FPGAs

10:10 → 10:20 Report on Fast ML Workshop

Speaker: Nicolo Ghielmetti (CERN)

Edge SpAIce - FastML report.pptx.pdf

10:20 → 10:30 Report on DPUs

Speakers: Noemi D'Abbondanza (Sapienza Universita e INFN, Roma I (IT)), Noemi d'Abbondanza

Presentazione dpu-1.pdf

10:30 → 11:00 Planning for consortium meeting