Two presentations were given at the February meeting. Both will also be given at the CHEP’09 conference in Prague in March.

Sverre Jarp pondered if the Atom (N330) processor is ready for High Energy Physics. In accordance with their tests, it might have potential although its pure performance is far behind the Xeon processor. However, two issues are still worrisome: the power consumption (of the Atom chipset) and the overall memory limitation of 2GB. The Atom N330 is the biggest member in the current family (with 2 cores and 4 threads), but it must be kept in mind that both Atom and Xeon families will evolve. Sverre concluded saying that the Atom N330 processor would be interesting but that the above-mentioned issues need urgently to be tackled before it can reach High Energy Physics.

Andrzej Nowak presented an update on perfmon and the struggle to get into the Linux Kernel. After a review of perfmon and its capabilities as well as the tragicomic saga of the efforts to get perfmon in the Linux kernel, he ended by saying that perfmon support at CERN will at any rate continue and that perfmon will be closer integrated with the developers in the physics experiments.

Both presentations are available on the openlab Web site.

Finally, Sverre Jarp reminded the audience that the next Minor Review Meeting will take place on March, 17^th.

Charlotte-Anaïs Cornaton, Sverre Jarp