1. OUTLINE (1) Mid term review (2) Milestones Deliverables: who does what (3.a) Outreach – Dissemination (3.b) Web site (4) Papers plan (5) Trainings (scientific and soft) (6) Career Development Plans (7) Next EB/GA (8) averall schedule

2. Mid Term Review November 7 at Bruxelles Address: Rue du Trone 98, 1050 Bruxelles INFN office & meeting room at 5° floor 1 representative for each Institution, all seconded/recruited persons should participate Report, deliverables, trainings, carrier dev. plans should be delivered one month before: end of September

3. 2014 Program - Milestones M.2.2. Slp2 ok at Caen CAEN M20 SLP2 runs flawlessly at CAEN M.2.3. Infrastructure ok at CAEN CAEN M20 Infrastructure validated M.2.4 Compare_technologies CAEN M20 Compare and choose technology M.3.1. Demonstrator ok at Atlas CERN M24 Demonstrator runs flawlessly in Atlas

4. 2014 Program – Deliverables to be ready for August 30 D.4.3. Test Vectors for the SLP2 based FTK R RE M16 Guido/Daniel D.2.3. CAEN power supply ready for integration R RE M18 Marco/Alex D.2.4. FTK cooling and mechanical tests completed R RE M20 Paola D.2.5 SLP2 fully integrated Pub PU M20 paper Pierluigi/Vale D.3.1. FTK demonstrator commissioned Pub PU M22 paper NSS D.6.2. Standard characterization R RE M24 Giovanni

5. OUTREACH MILESTONES & Deliverables (to be ready August 30) M.7.1.-M.7.3.Open Days results verificationAUTH M8, M20,M32 Sept. M.7.4. –M.7.6.WorkS. days results verification AUTH M6, M18,M30 JULY M.7.7. –M.7.9.Summer schools results AUTH M7, M19,M31 August D.7.1. IAPP project open days (Pisa- Paola)R PU M7, M19, M31, M43 August D.7.2. Workshop days (Callipe done)R PU M5, M17,M29, M41 June D.7.3. Summer school weeks (boot camp- Chiara)R PU M6, M18,M30, M42 July D.7.4 D.8.3 World wide web site for dissemination R PU M6, M18, M30, M48 July Status of Web site (Kostas-Simone) D.8.1. FTK Workshops (Alessand. Paola done)R RE M1, M13, M30, M46 February D.8.2. Trainings (AUTH – Calliope done)R RE M1, M5, M9, M19, August M29, M47

6. RD 2013 RD 2013, Florence, Italy, July 2013 "Variable resolution Associative Memory optimization and simulation for the ATLAS Fast Tracker project", presented by. C. Luongo, Slides, Paper. SlidesPaper "The Associative Memory system for the FTK processor at ATLAS", presented by. S. Citraro, Slides, Paper.SlidesPaper ICATPP 2013 ICATPP 2013, Como, Italy, September 2013 "The Associative Memory system for the FTK processor at ATLAS", presented by D. Magalotti, Slides, Paper.SlidesPaper "A Multi-Core FPGA-Based 2D-Clustering Algorithm for high-throughput data intensive applications", presented by C.-L. Sotiropoulou, Slides, Paper.SlidesPaper "Variable resolution Associative Memory for the Fast Tracker ATLAS upgrade", presented by A. Annovi Slides.Slides IEEE NSS 2013 IEEE NSS 2013, Seoul, Corea, October 2013 "A Multi-Core FPGA-Based Clustering Algorithm for Real-Time Image Processing", presented by C.-L. Sotiropoulou Poster, Paper. PosterPaper "The Associative Memory Boards for the FTK Processor at ATLAS", presented by A. Lanza Poster ppt, Paper. Poster pptPaper "Next generation Associative Memory devices for the FTK tracking processor of the ATLAS experiment", presented by F. Crescioli Slides, Paper. SlidesPaper "Variable resolution pattern generation for the Associative Memory of the ATLAS FTK project", presented by A. Annovi Poster, Poster TWEPP 2013 TWEPP 2013, Perugia, Italy, September 2013 "Next generation Associative Memory devices for the FTK tracking processor of the ATLAS experiment", presented by M. Beretta Poster ATL-DAQ-SLIDE-2013-850 ppt, Paper. Poster ATL-DAQ-SLIDE-2013-850 pptPaper "Design of a hardware track finder (Fast TracKer) for the ATLAS trigger", presented by G. Volpi Slides ppt, Paper. Slides pptPaper RT 2014 RT 2014, Nara, Japan, May 2014 "Associative Memory computing power and its simulation", presented by C. Luongo Poster Slides PosterSlides "A Highly Parallel FPGA Implementation of a 2D-Clustering Algorithm for the ATLAS Fast Tracker (FTK) Processor", presented by N. Kimura Slides Paper SlidesPaper TIPP 2014 TIPP 2014, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, June 2014 "The Serial Link Processor for the Fast TracKer (FTK) at ATLAS", presented by P. Luciano Slides PaperSlidesPaper "Future Evolution of the FTK Processing Unit", presented by C. Gentsos Slides Paper SlidesPaper "A High Performance Multi-Core FPGA Implementation for 2D Pixel CLustering for the ATLAS Fast TracKer (FTK) Processor", presented by C.-L. Sotiropoulou Slides Paper SlidesPaper WIT 2014 WIT 2014, University of Pennsylvania, May 2014 "A Parallel FPGA Implementation for Real-Time 2D Pixel Clustering for the ATLAS Fast Tracker (FTK) Processor", presented by S. Gkaitatzis Slides Paper SlidesPaper "The Serial Link Processor for the Fast TracKer (FTK) at ATLAS", presented by V. Liberali Slides PaperSlidesPaper CONFERENCES – TALKS & PROCEEDINGS

7. Papers on Peer Review Journal AMBSLP +LAMB + AMchip05  AMsystem LAMB tests with eval board  pub for PHD students (Pierluigi, Saverio, Daniel, Enrico) Calliope TNS paper Christos paper Cooling tests and T-simulation; Infrastructures Other ideas?

8. Web Site – thanks to Simone for updates- still to do before end of September: Section Dissemination: Talks & papers  Talks & Proceedings Add Papers School & Workshops  FTK events – FTK Workshops for the consortium – FTK Schools – FTK OPEN days – FTK Workshops for the public – Trainings & Soft trainings – Other dissemination occasions – seminars Section Organization: Workpackages & Deliverables  put the complete lists Timelines & milestones  put the schedule diagram & Milestone list Secondments  Secondments & recruitments - Update Gantt Charts Meetings  Consortium Management Meetings – put links to GAs & EBs Reports  update content with the new ones (2014 reports) Compact “Talks & Posters”, “Proceedings”, “Papers” into a single slot – Public documents under development: talks, posters, publications… Add: Career Development plan Add: Web site Development plan

9. REPORTS (to be ready August 30) Marco Piendibene Francesco Crescioli Christos Gentsos Guido Volpi Dimos Sampsodinis Stefano Petrucci Dimitris Dimas (short, to be completed later) Naoki Kimura Roberto Beccherle

10. OUTREACH - FTK workshops - Trainings SCHEDULE ALL DONE IN PISA first year YEAR 1 YEAR 2 We decided to Swap CERN with PRIELE YEAR 3 This is going to happen now in AUTH Very nice organization – congratulation to AUTH! Training in the LAB with FPGA evaluation boards and VIVADO! Very nice workshop Participation with a talk also at the school on trigger! NEXT year at LPNHE! What do you Plan to offer?

11. SOFT Trainings LANGUAGE: Italian courses in Pisa for Greek seconded researchers (both at UNIPI and CAEN) Communication: Skype training for the whole consortium – June 23 https://agenda.infn.it/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=8278 https://agenda.infn.it/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=8278 Management, Skype training for the whole consortium: – Horizon 2020 training, July 22 https://agenda.infn.it/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=8424 https://agenda.infn.it/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=8424 – HiPeac training, July 23 – https://agenda.infn.it/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=8425 https://agenda.infn.it/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=8425

12. Career Development Plans to be ready July 30 Certainly we need: 1.G. Calderini 2.F. Crescioli 3.D. Dimas 4.S. Donati 5.C. Gentsos 6.N. Kimura 7.K. Kordas 8.K. Mermikli 9.S. Petrucci 10.M. Piendibene 11.D. Sampsonidis 12.A. Sakellariou 13.C.-L. Sotiropoulou 14.G. Volpi Better if have also: Neuroutsos, Citraro, and Panajotis

13. Management – Meetings (1/2) 1.ANNEX 1: The GA will meet twice per year (M5 & M11 each year) to deal with administrative issues of the project. The EB will meet every 4 months (M3, M7, M11 each year) to assess the progress in research and training aspects. 2.CONSORTIUM AGREEMENT: General AssemblyAt least once a year Executive BoardAt least quarterly PROPOSAL June 2013: approve an “amendment” to CA by EB and GA. - Unless otherwise required by practice, EB will meet 4-monthly

14. NEXT EB, GA meetings proposal The last 2014 GA, EB will be in September to discuss material for the Mid-term review What about Mid of September? Friday September 19?

16. CONCLUSIONS Interesting work developments Our recruitment – secondment plan is going ahead with changes but all approved by PO We need a lot of work for the Mid Term report submission