MPI/Ramesh: 4 alveo cards ordered, but need to be repaired and sent back to manufactures (if clock rate is too high, the card locks and stops working); simulation/network training is ongoing
Chrisitan Kahra: versal AI engines programming, first steps; baseline is still Ultrascale+; but if versal AI works fine, could be used; could be implemented in next fFEX prototype version
Dennis Layh: there is a new bachelor student in Mainz group- learns machine learning for ATLAS FCal; object detection on calorimeter data (work on smaller regions)
Johann: cleaning up of CNN firmware code; working on hardware tests with injector module; next time presentation on CNN training by Dresden group (Anne)
General Meeting PUNCH on October 12+13 in Munich
TA5 meeting is planned
Discussions with other TAs, e.g. machine learning/storage
Next meeting: September 18 at 9h30
Presentations/updates by all groups as input to General Meeting
