Minutes of Technical Board Meeting, 2024-February-21

Minutes of Technical Board Meeting, 2024-February-21

[Maxime Coquelin]

# Techboard attendees
- Bruce Richardson
- Honnappa Nagarahalli
- Jerin Jacob
- Kevin Traynor
- Konstantin Ananyev
- Maxime Coquelin (Chair)
- Morten Brørup
- Thomas Monjalon

# General information
- Next meeting will take place on March 6th, and will be chaired by 
Morten Brørup.

# Agenda
- Update on lab servers by Aaron
- Marketing updates by Ben

# Minutes
## Update about the UNH lab servers
- HW resources audit was requested
- Some of the servers are getting too old to provide good testing coverage.
   For example AVX-512 require fairly recent CPUs, or newer NICs require 
good enough PCIe.
- Suggestions to have AMD-based server, and questions about ARM-based 
servers in the lab.
- Regarding ARM, there is one Ampere server (Neoverse-N1) donated in 
2022 already. Is that enough?
- Other architectures like RISC-V or LoongArch are not present in the lab.
   Even though LoongSon provide their CI for LoongArch.
- AI: Aaron to start a mail thread to gather requirements.

## Marketing updates
- Ben met with Gal, Mark and Robin to review marketing strategy for 2024.
- One of the goals to have more cross-projects collaborations.
- Request help from the Technical Board to prospect for new members.
- Also calls for ideas for Code Challenge.