Background

In November 2008 at the 2^nd xTCA for Physics Workshop in Dresden an ad hoc committee from several major physics labs agreed to accept an invitation to join the PICMG open standards consortium to develop xTCA for physics extensions to the existing standards. Actual work  began in May-June 2009 and has now resulted in prototyping of two important hardware extensions, one for ATCA and one for µTCA, plus a road map for several future additions; and also significant work on a list of software guidelines aimed at smoothing the implementation of PICMG high availability software products into future physics systems.

Program

Since many users are new to ATCA/µTCA while others are actively designing on the open standard, this workshop has four main components: (1) introductory xTCA hardware and software tutorials; (2) status reports on the new extensions by committee members;  (3) live demonstration tutorials of hardware and software products by industry and labs, and (4) new application developments by labs and industry. The program includes a small industrial exhibit and invited talks by vendors. The final program is available to download.

The workshop abstracts are available here.

Registration

Advance registration is required and companions are welcome to the Workshop Dinner.

Conference Presentations Availability

All slides and related materials from the talks will be made available for downloading from the RT 2010 website at the conclusion of the conference.

Bruno Soares Gonçalves (bruno@ipfn.ist.utl.pt) & Ray Larsen (Larsen@slac.stanford.edu), Co-chairs