December 2008 Meeting Notes
Compiled by Dave Jaffe
Contributions from Kevin Appert and others
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10:30 |
Coffee and a Chat |
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11:00 |
Matrix Multiplication in a Massively Parallel Processor
Array - CH Ting
"My goal is to perform matrix multiplications of
two 1000x1000 matrices. I think this can be done very fast if I have a
processor array with 1000x1000 processing elements and sufficient memory in
each element. I need suggestions on how to invert matrices and diagonalize
matrices (eigen values and eigen vectors). So far, I have not found good ways
to solve linear equation problems with a large processor array. All available
algorithms work well only in serial operations." |
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Noon |
Lunch
Due to the holiday Stanford campus closure, we
may be carpooling to lunch venues on University Ave in downtown Palo Alto.
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13:00 |
Introductions, Announcements, Rumors, Random Access
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13:45 |
SVFIG Treasurer's Report - John Rible |
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14:00 |
Forth Day 2008 Lessons Learned - All in
attendance |
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14:30 |
RoboDevelopment Conference & Exposition Slide Show -
Dave Jaffe
Dave will present a slide show of this year's hobbyist /
trade expo. |
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15:00 |
IntellaSys Chips - John Rible
"I'm proposing
that SVFIG buy 50-100 bare chips to resell (may not be the proper wording for
sales taxes, etc.) with enough mark-up to cover costs of mailing. IntellaSys
(CEO Chet Brown) has agreed to sell them to SVFIG at $20 each if we agree to
limit any one person to 10 or less and accept responsibility for all support /
return issues (that's why IntellaSys is selling through distributors). This
would occur in January, after the chips have been tested."
Kevin's comments:
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"We'll discuss and decide! $20 * (50
chips) = $1000"
- "I'm not sure we'd really sell this many so if you aren't
going to be at the meeting, express your interest NOW! Let me know how many you
want either by posting to the SVFIG list or directly to me at:
forther-at-comcast-dot-net "
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17:00 |
Adjourn - |
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Other items:
Forth
Other
- 80/20 Erector Set for
grownups
- Yoggie Pico personal
USB firewall
- RoboDevelopment
Expo and Conference
- Exhibitors
- Robot
chicken
- Laser
rangefinder
- National Instruments
- Try
LabView online or download evaluation copy
- ISP1161/x PCI Eval Board
- Willow Garage, a
proponent of Open Source robotics, will demonstrate the sensor head from the
upcoming PR2 robot, including a stereo camera on a very fast pan-tilt head, a
Hokuyo laser scanner on a tilt platform, and two pan-tilt-zoom cameras. Find
out how the PR2 will see the world.
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