Caribou Developers Meeting

Tuesday 12 Nov 2024, 16:00 → 17:30 Europe/Zurich

Younes Otarid (CERN)

16:00 → 16:10 General News

Speaker: Younes Otarid (CERN)

Younes:

• [Users Meeting](https://indico.cern.ch/event/1475812/) announced and will be held in place of the developpers meeting with presentation of latest developers updates and user feedback:
  
  • Developers: 
    • Hardware update:
      • CaR board v1.5: design, production and distribution
      • CaR board v2.0: requirements and prototyping phase
    • Firmware update:
      • New Boreal architecture and integration workflow
    • Software:
      • New Peta-Caribou tool and worflow
• Presentation at DRD3 2nd Week;
  • Abstract to be prepared by Younes and reviewed prior to submission
  • Presentation to be prepared by Eric, Ryan and Younes with a focus on the latest developments and less on the legacy system
    • CaR board v1.5, CaR board v2.0 prototyping phase, Cordia project, FNAL project,  
  • Presentation potentially to be given by Tomas (to be confirmed with WP conveners)
• Poster for PIXEL-2024 conference is now finalized and submitted for printing 

16:10 → 16:35 Hardware

Speakers: Eric Buschmann (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US)), Shaochun Tang (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US)), Tomas Vanat (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DE)), Younes Otarid (CERN)

Younes:

• Think about versioning of CaR board developments. So far no access to development besides the main ones.
  • Licensing issue ? 
• Think about CaR board documentation to be published on the website. It is now automatically dones for Peta-Caribou, Boreal and Peary using markdown files structred and placed in a folder /doc in the gitlab repository

16:35 → 17:00 Firmware

Speakers: Eric Buschmann (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US)), Tomas Vanat (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DE)), Younes Otarid (CERN)

Younes:

• Searching for a solution to avoid automatic block design file update everytime a synthesis is ran. Any ideas ? 
  • Enable block design creationg in project TCL script
• Implemented automatic triggering of documentation pulling and website deployment in Boreal CI
• Currently working on publising all bitstream built by the CI into a gitlab release for users 
• Will start actively documenting the new Boreal architecure on the website, with instruction about how to seamlessly integrate new devices

17:00 → 17:25 Software - OS

Speakers: Eric Buschmann (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US)), Mathieu Benoit (Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL)), Simon Spannagel (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DE)), Younes Otarid (CERN)

Younes:

• Meta-Caribou is now officialy archived, leaving the floor to the Peta-Caribou workflow
• Peta-Caribou is now extensively documented, refer to the [manual](https://caribou-project.docs.cern.ch/docs/03_peta-caribou/)
• Migrated Peary documentation to central website
  • Peary documentation needs to be updated and extended. How do we proceed ? Should I take care of it as well ? 
• Included automatic triggering of documentation pulling and website deployment in Peta-Caribou and Peary CI
• About to endorse the task of supporting adapting Peary to support 32bit reading on 64bit architectures, essential for the support of ZCU102 and beyond
  • Support very welcome from Simon and Tomas

17:25 → 17:30 AOB