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==Project Leadership==
==Project Leadership==
Lead:
:- Lead: [mailto:ahmad.byagowi@ocproject.net Ahmad Byagowi, Ph.D.] (OCP TAP / Facebook)
:[mailto:ahmad.byagowi@ocproject.net Ahmad Byagowi, Ph.D.] (OCP TAP / Facebook)
:- Incubation Committee: [mailto:elad.wind@ocproject.net Elad Wind] (OCP / NVIDIA)
Incubation Committee:
:[mailto:elad.wind@ocproject.net Elad Wind] (OCP / NVIDIA)


=== Workstreams ===
=== Workstreams ===
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! Project !! Objective !! POC !! Meeting Schedule
! Project !! Objective !! POC !! Meeting Schedule
|-  
|-  
| #1
| '''#1'''
| Open Time Server
| Open Time Server
| Development of an open time server for DC and Edge systems
| Development of an open time server for DC and Edge systems
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| rowspan="4" | discussed during project calls
| rowspan="4" | discussed during project calls
|-
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| #2
| '''#2'''
| Data Center PTP Profile   
| Data Center PTP Profile   
| Development of a PTP Profile tailored for data center applications
| Development of a PTP Profile tailored for data center applications
| [mailto:michelouellette@fb.com Michel Ouellette]
| [mailto:michelouellette@fb.com Michel Ouellette]
|-
|-
| #3
| '''#3'''
| Precision Time API
| Precision Time API
| Time APIs to disseminate the time error (error bound) and bring accurate time to the user space
| Time APIs to disseminate the time error (error bound) and bring accurate time to the user space
| [mailto:gemicha@gmail.com Georgi Chalakov]  
| [mailto:gemicha@gmail.com Georgi Chalakov]  
|-
|-
| #4
| '''#4'''
| Oscillators
| Oscillators
| Classification and measuring of oscillators
| Classification and measuring of oscillators
| [mailto:ggiust@sitime.com Gary Giust]  
| [mailto:ggiust@sitime.com Gary Giust]  
|-
 
|
| Overall
| Project meeting coordinator
| [mailto:kelvinchukwu@fb.com Kelvin Chukwu]
| please send all inquiries to Kelvin
|}
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:- [https://146a55aca6f00848c565-a7635525d40ac1c70300198708936b4e.ssl.cf1.rackcdn.com/files/c6eee7bea1d297fe82bd18a7f38dfb1806ec1806.pdf Charter]
:- [https://146a55aca6f00848c565-a7635525d40ac1c70300198708936b4e.ssl.cf1.rackcdn.com/files/c6eee7bea1d297fe82bd18a7f38dfb1806ec1806.pdf Charter]
:- [https://github.com/opencomputeproject/Time-Appliance-Project TAP GitHub]  
:- [https://github.com/opencomputeproject/Time-Appliance-Project TAP GitHub]  
:- [http://linkedin.com/company/ocp-tap TAP LinkedIn]
:- [https://www.facebook.com/ocptap TAP Facebook]
:- [https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1EDE9Pj1eZj2sF7fUGOnVmwGTf4U6yonr?usp=sharing Google Drive Document Repository]


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! Worstream !! Name !! Format !! Version !! Date  
! Worstream !! Name !! Format !! Version !! Date  
|-  
|-  
| rowspan="3" | #1
| rowspan="3" style="text-align:center;"  |'''#1'''
| [https://github.com/opencomputeproject/Time-Appliance-Project/tree/master/Open-Time-Server Open Time Server]
| [https://github.com/opencomputeproject/Time-Appliance-Project/tree/master/Open-Time-Server Open Time Server]
| Reference Architecture  
| Reference Architecture  
| v1 [draft]
| v1  
| July 28, 2021
| July 28, 2021
|-  
|-  
| [https://github.com/opencomputeproject/Time-Appliance-Project/tree/master/Time-Card Time Card]
| [https://github.com/opencomputeproject/Time-Appliance-Project/tree/master/Time-Card Time Card]
| Spec and design package
| Spec and design package
| v1 [draft]
| v1  
| July 28, 2021
| July 28, 2021
|-  
|-  
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| July 28, 2021
| July 28, 2021
|-
|-
| #2  
| style="text-align:center;" | '''#2'''
| [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1VKHN8jHgJ9WYLu4lTsgCzvG37SiaxQja/view?usp=sharing Data Center PTP Profile]
| [https://github.com/opencomputeproject/Time-Appliance-Project/tree/master/DC-PTP-Profile Data Center PTP Profile]
| Spec
| Spec
| v0.3
| v1
| April 7, 2021
| August 31, 2021
|-
|-
|}
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==TAP GitHub==
:- [https://github.com/opencomputeproject/Time-Appliance-Project Github Repo]
==TAP Google Drive==
:- [https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1EDE9Pj1eZj2sF7fUGOnVmwGTf4U6yonr?usp=sharing Google Drive Document Repository]


==Regular Project Calls==
==Regular Project Calls==
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==Upcoming Calls==
==Upcoming Calls==
{| class="wikitable"
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
|-
!
!
! Date !! Topics !! Speakers  
! Date !! Topics !! Speakers  
|-
| #38
| <font color="green">Dec-29, 2021</font>
| <font color="green">Fireside Chat with John Eidson</font>
| <font color="green">Kevin Stanton</font>
|-
|-
| #37
| <font color="green">Dec-15, 2021</font>
| <font color="green">PCIe PTM: Timing in the Last Inch</font>
| <font color="green">Christopher Hall</font>
|-
|-
| #36
| <font color="green">Dec-1, 2021</font>
| <font color="green">Application of Physical Layer Synchronization/Syntonization in a Data Center Environment</font>
| <font color="green">Med Belhadj</font>
|-


|-
|-
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| #33
| #33
| <font color="green">Oct-20, 2021</font>
| <font color="green">Oct-20, 2021</font>
| <font color="green"></font>
| <font color="green">Squared: A P2P Overlay Network for Setting up a Scalable PTP clock Synchronization Mesh</font>
| <font color="green">Lasse Johnsen</font>
| <font color="green">Lasse Johnsen</font>
|-
|-
|}
==Recordings from Past Calls==
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
!
! Date !! Topics !! Speakers !! Slides


|-
|-
| #32
| #32
| <font color="green">Oct-6, 2021</font>
| Oct 6th, 2021
| <font color="green"></font>
| [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5jbUJeHaRBU October 6th Meeting Validating PTP follower clock accuracy]
| <font color="green">Alon Regev</font>
| Alon Regev
| [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1BLqaCoF8tnZtwA-jlMmfs1_xNNCR8Nd8/view?usp=sharing Slides]
 
|-
|-
| #31
| #31
| <font color="green">Sep-22, 2021</font>
| Sep 22, 2021
| <font color="green"></font>
| [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwbPtG6f7eI Transparent Clock and its Applications]
| <font color="green">Amit Oren</font>
| Amit Oren
| [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1gB8uSXkX4OV7yNYUdg8JLFqNeYwYG3Et/view?usp=sharing Slides]
 
|-
|-
| #30
| #30
| <font color="green">Sep-8, 2021</font>
| Sep 8, 2021
| <font color="green">Miniaturized Rubidium Oscillator With The Lowest SWAP Based on Double Resonance</font>
| [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vj2nM9N7F9g Miniaturized Rubidium Oscillator With The Lowest SWAP Based on Double Resonance]
| <font color="green">Christian S., Stavros M., Jean-Arnold C.</font>
| Christian S. Ph.D., Stavros M. Ph.D., Jean-Arnold C
|-
| [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Uap6vcQyrY-X9sWkjE3IZCxdaWHTnWET/view?usp=sharing Slides]
|}
 
==Recordings from Past Calls==
{| class="wikitable"
|-
!
! Date !! Topics !! Speakers !! Slides  


|-
|-
| #29
| #29
| Aug 25, 2021
| Aug 25, 2021
| Fearless Global Transactions using Clock Synchronization in CockroachDB
| [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MUhEbmjAweA Fearless Global Transactions using Clock Synchronization in CockroachDB]
| Nathan VanBenschoten
| Nathan VanBenschoten
| [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1otcpgZa4eXwfkcTTRgiOT_SqrkogOeZh/view?usp=sharing Slides]
| [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1otcpgZa4eXwfkcTTRgiOT_SqrkogOeZh/view?usp=sharing Slides]
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|-
|-
| #9
| #09
| Nov-4, 2020
| Nov-4, 2020
| [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rUDHKJCI3n4 Time Sync in TSNs] (History of TSN, IEEE 802.1AS Overview)
| [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rUDHKJCI3n4 Time Sync in TSNs] (History of TSN, IEEE 802.1AS Overview)
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| [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1y1ds3bGuJcNRlHgVnmjQGeXhCfZ5sy4q/view?usp=sharing Slides]
| [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1y1ds3bGuJcNRlHgVnmjQGeXhCfZ5sy4q/view?usp=sharing Slides]
|-
|-
| #8
| #08
| Oct-21, 2020
| Oct-21, 2020
| [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUPv1Gdvv9A Starter's guide to ptp4l]  
| [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUPv1Gdvv9A Starter's guide to ptp4l]  
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|-
|-
| #7
| #07
| Oct-7, 2020
| Oct-7, 2020
| [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FIuazsKx7VY&feature=youtu.be Timing card implementation]  
| [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FIuazsKx7VY&feature=youtu.be Timing card implementation]  
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|-
|-
| #6
| #06
| Sep-23, 2020
| Sep-23, 2020
| [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xzh3JUzbz4I Practical Use Cases of Synchronized Clocks]
| [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xzh3JUzbz4I Practical Use Cases of Synchronized Clocks]
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|-
|-
| #5
| #05
| Sep-9, 2020
| Sep-9, 2020
| [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5XJXEztSDl4 Data Center PTP Profile, <B>Workstream #2</B> goals and draft spec]  
| [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5XJXEztSDl4 Data Center PTP Profile, <B>Workstream #2</B> goals and draft spec]  
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|-
|-
| #4
| #04
| Aug-26, 2020
| Aug-26, 2020
| [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vc1IUOw0Q4k Open Grandmaster (Open Time Server), <B>Workstream #1</B> goals and draft spec]
| [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vc1IUOw0Q4k Open Grandmaster (Open Time Server), <B>Workstream #1</B> goals and draft spec]
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|-
|-
| #3
| #03
| Aug-12, 2020
| Aug-12, 2020
| [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=INEbH7Q_d1c TAP Vision as well as the impact of precision oscillator noise on PTP time error]
| [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=INEbH7Q_d1c TAP Vision as well as the impact of precision oscillator noise on PTP time error]
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|-
|-
| #2
| #02
| Jul-29, 2020
| Jul-29, 2020
| [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7eo3Aya35c Detailed Project Proposal and Discussion]
| [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7eo3Aya35c Detailed Project Proposal and Discussion]
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|-
| #1
| #01
| Jul-15, 2020
| Jul-15, 2020
| [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WmMM0b38mIM Proposal to launch OCP-TAP Incubation Project]
| [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WmMM0b38mIM Proposal to launch OCP-TAP Incubation Project]
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|-
| rowspan="7" | #4 Oscillators  
| rowspan="9" | #4 Oscillators  
|
|
 
|-
| [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1LpgxV0YIMrhOO1sOY3nAtw9ozfyyzPQP/view?usp=sharing Sep-1, 2021]; [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1hpxMSDdZ7zWIW01AyltPNEpbuYz44QSW/view?usp=sharing Sep-8, 2021]; [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1uXuDhv7Tasnl6-kmZPr2LC1bFHOlcoM2/view?usp=sharing Sep-15, 2021]; [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1HvZ1JaIBqXgh7B76yMO6CMWSB-_D-eJN/view?usp=sharing Sep-22, 2021]
|
 
|-
| [https://drive.google.com/file/d/14dONxCYDf-s0-uTZkzrcsJ9iUgHKUgGO/view?usp=sharing Aug-11, 2021]; [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1sE0POmbOwZujYnysLP3I0ckSuBx_nl4d/view?usp=sharing Aug-25, 2021]
| [https://drive.google.com/file/d/14dONxCYDf-s0-uTZkzrcsJ9iUgHKUgGO/view?usp=sharing Aug-11, 2021]; [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1sE0POmbOwZujYnysLP3I0ckSuBx_nl4d/view?usp=sharing Aug-25, 2021]
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== TAP Media References ==
:- [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JK3eTGkX6qY&t=286s "Why is this PCIe Card RADIOACTIVE?"] video from [https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXuqSBlHAE6Xw-yeJA0Tunw Linus Tech Tips Youtube Channel] highlighting the TAP Time Card
:- [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tU0xC1ynaT8 "The most accurate Raspberry Pi clock IN THE WORLD! Can it do PTP?"] video from [https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCR-DXc1voovS8nhAvccRZhg Jeff Geerling Youtube Channel] highlighting the TAP Time Card
:- [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKApDtJjXU4 "Put An Atomic Clock in Your PC - Open Source Time Card"] video from [https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRjSO-juFtngAeJGJRMdIZw Gary Explains Youtube Channel] explains the TAP Time Card
:- [https://www.cnet.com/tech/computing/facebook-shares-its-time-card-atomic-clock-tech-to-speed-internet-services/ "Facebook shares its Time Card atomic clock tech to speed internet services"] article from C|Net
:- [https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/nvidia-supercharges-precision-timing-for-facebooks-next-generation-time-keeping/ "Supercharges Precision Timing for Facebook’s Next-Generation Time Keeping"] developer blog from NVIDIA


== References & External Links ==  
== References & External Links ==  
:- [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JK3eTGkX6qY&t=286s "Why is this PCIe Card RADIOACTIVE?"] Video from [https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXuqSBlHAE6Xw-yeJA0Tunw Linus Tech Tips Youtube Channel] highlighting the TAP Time Card
:- [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tU0xC1ynaT8 "The most accurate Raspberry Pi clock IN THE WORLD! Can it do PTP?"] Video from [https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCR-DXc1voovS8nhAvccRZhg Jeff Geerling Youtube Channel] highlighting the TAP Time Card
:- [https://storage.googleapis.com/pub-tools-public-publication-data/pdf/45855.pdf '''Spanner''', TrueTime & The CAP Theorem] by Eric Brewer, Google
:- [https://storage.googleapis.com/pub-tools-public-publication-data/pdf/45855.pdf '''Spanner''', TrueTime & The CAP Theorem] by Eric Brewer, Google
:- [https://www.usenix.org/conference/osdi20/presentation/li-yuliang '''Sundial''': Fault-tolerant Clock Synchronization for Datacenters] by Google Inc. and Harvard University
:- [https://www.usenix.org/conference/osdi20/presentation/li-yuliang '''Sundial''': Fault-tolerant Clock Synchronization for Datacenters] by Google Inc. and Harvard University
:- [http://www.dainf.cefetpr.br/~tacla/SDII/PracticalUseOfClocks.pdf Practical Uses of Synchronized Clocks in Distributed Systems] by Barbara Liskov  
:- [http://www.dainf.cefetpr.br/~tacla/SDII/PracticalUseOfClocks.pdf Practical Uses of Synchronized Clocks in Distributed Systems] by Barbara Liskov  
:- [https://ocp-all.groups.io/g/OCP-TAP/attachment/2/0/nsdi18-geng.pdf Stanford Paper] for reference only
:- [https://ocp-all.groups.io/g/OCP-TAP/attachment/2/0/nsdi18-geng.pdf Stanford Paper]  
:- [https://arxiv.org/pdf/2002.04269.pdf On Time Synchronization Issues in Time-Sensitive Networks with Regulators and Nonideal Clocks] for reference only
:- [https://arxiv.org/pdf/2002.04269.pdf On Time Synchronization Issues in Time-Sensitive Networks with Regulators and Nonideal Clocks]  
:- [https://drive.google.com/file/d/11MFIk9WWJ-cmjj8uWifKQnefEKvdchZE/view?usp=sharing Accurate Network Clock Synchronization at Scale] for reference only
:- [https://drive.google.com/file/d/11MFIk9WWJ-cmjj8uWifKQnefEKvdchZE/view?usp=sharing Accurate Network Clock Synchronization at Scale]  
:- [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1dpuhsC3aPNpJHD-iw0xq4K0cDjEMGG4q/view?usp=sharing Exploiting a Natural Network Effect for Scalable, Fine-grained Clock Synchronization] for reference only
:- [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1dpuhsC3aPNpJHD-iw0xq4K0cDjEMGG4q/view?usp=sharing Exploiting a Natural Network Effect for Scalable, Fine-grained Clock Synchronization]  
:- [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1OSdZfRiGYKSntjhorKdPtoP1ewQ_yKVW/view?usp=sharing SIMON: A Simple and Scalable Method for Sensing, Inference and Measurement in Data Center Networks] for reference only
:- [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1OSdZfRiGYKSntjhorKdPtoP1ewQ_yKVW/view?usp=sharing SIMON: A Simple and Scalable Method for Sensing, Inference and Measurement in Data Center Networks]  
:- [https://www.opencompute.org/blog/open-compute-project-foundation-issues-new-guidelines-for-inclusiveness New Guidelines for Inclusiveness] for reference only
:- [https://www.opencompute.org/blog/open-compute-project-foundation-issues-new-guidelines-for-inclusiveness New Guidelines for Inclusiveness]

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Welcome

Welcome to the OCP Time Appliances Project wiki.
This Project is open to the public and we welcome all those who would like to be involved.
Time is a key element to get the highest efficiency in a distributed system. The performance of a distributed system depends on the synchronization of its elements. Several industries such as telecom, mobile, power, industrial, professional audio and video and many more have embraced the need for highly accurate and more importantly reliable distribution and synchronization of time and frequency across packet networks. Although the use case scenario for each of the industries is different, they all share one common thing and that is, time synchronization. Since there is a diverse need for time synchronization across different industries, driven from different use cases and applications, managing the needs of this industry chain becomes a challenge.

Time Appliances Project (TAP) aims to provide a platform to bring together, discuss, standardize and share technologies and solutions across industries with the datacenter applications and datacenter network infrastructure as the main interest. The project aims to bring together the community of datacenter operators, application developers, and equipment and semiconductor companies together to enable datacenter time-sensitive applications such as consistency in distributed systems, edge computing, AR/VR and IoT. These applications will greatly benefit from high accuracy, reliable, and scalable distribution and synchronization of time.

IEEE 1588 Precision Timing Protocol (PTP) and other synchronization methods have been adopted by various industries to maximize the efficiency of various distributed system use cases. Each use case scenario comes with a set of requirements and configurations. These configurations are collected as a ‘PTP profile’. Time appliances project aims to support the development of a PTP profile for datacenter applications and datacenter network infrastructure. The profile will cover time-sensitive applications over OCP-compliant and PTP-aware networking infrastructure such as network switches, network clocks, network interface cards, timing modules & connectors, etc. Additionally, the profile will address various requirements for high accuracy and reliable distribution and synchronization of time, such as expected performance, networking, software API, data models, deployment and telemetry. The project also aims at openness and interoperability through the use of open-source PTP software implementations for timing appliances.

Datacenter applications are the primary target of time appliances project. In addition, the project extends to related topics on time synchronization in academia, research and other industries. The time appliances project brings together the community and will be highly collaborative through technical meetings and collaboration with other OCP Projects including the Networking, Storage, Server, and Telco Projects.

Disclaimer: Please do not submit any confidential information to the Project Community. All presentation materials, proposals, meeting minutes and/or supporting documents are published by OCP and are open to the public in accordance to OCP's Bylaws and IP Policy. This can be found on the OCP OCP Policies page. If you have any questions please contact OCP.

Mission Statement

1. Create specifications and references for Data Center Timing appliances, applications and networking infrastructure
2. Promote openness in Timing Appliances and interfaces through open-source implementations

Project Leadership

- Lead: Ahmad Byagowi, Ph.D. (OCP TAP / Facebook)
- Incubation Committee: Elad Wind (OCP / NVIDIA)

Workstreams

Project Objective POC Meeting Schedule
#1 Open Time Server Development of an open time server for DC and Edge systems Oleg Obleukhov &
Dotan Levi
discussed during project calls
#2 Data Center PTP Profile Development of a PTP Profile tailored for data center applications Michel Ouellette
#3 Precision Time API Time APIs to disseminate the time error (error bound) and bring accurate time to the user space Georgi Chalakov
#4 Oscillators Classification and measuring of oscillators Gary Giust

Get Involved

- TAP Mailing List
- OCP Projects Calendar

Documents

- Charter
- TAP GitHub
- TAP LinkedIn
- TAP Facebook
- Google Drive Document Repository


Worstream Name Format Version Date
#1 Open Time Server Reference Architecture v1 July 28, 2021
Time Card Spec and design package v1 July 28, 2021
TAP Software Software July 28, 2021
#2 Data Center PTP Profile Spec v1 August 31, 2021

Regular Project Calls

- Wednesdays at 11am PST, starting on July 15th, 2020. Repeats every 2 weeks following that
- Please contact Kelvin Chukwu to propose any agenda items

Join the meeting from your computer, tablet or smartphone:

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Dial in:

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Upcoming Calls

Date Topics Speakers
#38 Dec-29, 2021 Fireside Chat with John Eidson Kevin Stanton
#37 Dec-15, 2021 PCIe PTM: Timing in the Last Inch Christopher Hall
#36 Dec-1, 2021 Application of Physical Layer Synchronization/Syntonization in a Data Center Environment Med Belhadj
#35 Nov-17, 2021 Oscillator Workstream Update Gary Guist, Ph.D.
#34 Nov-3, 2021 Sync for Virtualized Software Dotan Levi
#33 Oct-20, 2021 Squared: A P2P Overlay Network for Setting up a Scalable PTP clock Synchronization Mesh Lasse Johnsen

Recordings from Past Calls

Date Topics Speakers Slides
#32 Oct 6th, 2021 October 6th Meeting Validating PTP follower clock accuracy Alon Regev Slides
#31 Sep 22, 2021 Transparent Clock and its Applications Amit Oren Slides
#30 Sep 8, 2021 Miniaturized Rubidium Oscillator With The Lowest SWAP Based on Double Resonance Christian S. Ph.D., Stavros M. Ph.D., Jean-Arnold C Slides
#29 Aug 25, 2021 Fearless Global Transactions using Clock Synchronization in CockroachDB Nathan VanBenschoten Slides
#28 Aug 11, 2021 White Rabbit High Accuracy Timing Francisco Girela Lopez, Ph.D. Slides
#27 Jul-28, 2021 Sundial: Fault-tolerant Clock Synchronization for Datacenters Gautam Kumar & Yuliang Li, Ph.D. Slides
#26 Jul-14, 2021 Holdover Challenges in NIC Based Boundary Clocks Eyal Cohen Slides
#25 Jun-30, 2021 GNSS Anti-Jamming and Spoof Mitigation Benoit Krummenacker Slides
#24 Jun-16, 2021 Introduction to IEEE1588-2019 Doug Arnold, Ph.D. Slides
#23 Jun-2, 2021 Introduction to MAC and CSACs Robert Lutwak, Ph.D. Slides
#22 May-19, 2021 Open Synchronization implementations on Linux/k8s Clusters Timo Jokiaho & Pasi Vaananen Slides
#21 May-5, 2021 White Rabbit: An Accurate Time and Frequency Transfer over Ethernet Maciej Lipinski, Ph.D. Slides
#20 Apr-21, 2021 Time Scale Ensembles in Uncertain Environments Marc A. Weiss, Ph.D. Slides
#19 Apr-7, 2021 Clock and Oscillator Statistics and Characterization Techniques Slides
#18 Mar-24, 2021 Introduction to Project Corundum for Time services Alex Forencich, Ph.D. Slides
#17 Mar-10, 2021 Oscillators Classification, Workstream #4 goals and kickoff Gary Giust, Ph.D. Slides
#16 Feb-24, 2021 GNSS Timing Samuli Pietila
#15 Feb-10, 2021 Centralized GNSS Monitoring and Assurance Nir Laufer Slides
#14 Jan-27, 2021 Huygens and its Applications Balaji Prabhakar, Ph.D.
#13 Jan-13, 2021 TAP 2020 Recap, 2021 Plans Ahmad Byagowi, Ph.D. Slides
#12 Dec-16, 2020 Chip Scaled Atomic Clocks John Kitching, Ph.D. Slides
#11 Dec-2, 2020 Data Center PTP Profile, Workstream #2 proposal Michel Ouellette
#10 Nov-18, 2020 Computer Timekeeping and Synchronization Kevin Stanton, Ph.D. Slides
#09 Nov-4, 2020 Time Sync in TSNs (History of TSN, IEEE 802.1AS Overview) Hesham ElBakoury Slides
#08 Oct-21, 2020 Starter's guide to ptp4l Maciej Machnikowski Slides
#07 Oct-7, 2020 Timing card implementation Ahmad Byagowi, Ph.D.
#06 Sep-23, 2020 Practical Use Cases of Synchronized Clocks Georgi Chalakov
#05 Sep-9, 2020 Data Center PTP Profile, Workstream #2 goals and draft spec Michel Ouellette
#04 Aug-26, 2020 Open Grandmaster (Open Time Server), Workstream #1 goals and draft spec Oleg Obleukhov
#03 Aug-12, 2020 TAP Vision as well as the impact of precision oscillator noise on PTP time error Dotan Levi
#02 Jul-29, 2020 Detailed Project Proposal and Discussion Michel Ouellette
#01 Jul-15, 2020 Proposal to launch OCP-TAP Incubation Project Ahmad Byagowi, Ph.D. Slides

Presentations & Videos

- TAP Vision
- TAP Presentation
- GTC 2021: Time Synchronization in Distributed Data Centers Video Slides
- September 2nd 2021 IC Presentation (Contribution of TAP DC Profile)
- August 5th, 2021 IC Presentation (Contribution of TAP Time Card and Open Time Server)
- 2020 OCP Tech Week
- Kickoff: Video Slides
- Synchronized Data Centers - Why Bother? Video Slides
- Hardware Timestamping Revolution (Alternatives to Vanilla PTP): Video Slides
- Measurement and Testing Challenges in Data Centers: Video Slides Part 1 Part 2
- Data Center PTP Profile: Video Slides
- Open Source Time Server (Grandmaster): Video Slides
- Tech Demo - Open Source Time Server (Grandmaster): Video Slides
- Impact of Oscillator Noise on PTP Time Error – Part 1
- Impact of Oscillator Noise on PTP Time Error – Part 2
- ELPROMA TAP Remarks Oct 7 2020

Recordings from Workstream Calls

Workstream Recordings Slides
#4 Oscillators
Sep-1, 2021; Sep-8, 2021; Sep-15, 2021; Sep-22, 2021
Aug-11, 2021; Aug-25, 2021
Jul-21, 2021
Jun-2, 2021;Jun-9, 2021; Jun-23, 2021
May-5, 2021; May-12, 2021; May-19, 2021, May-26 2021
Apr-7, 2021; Apr-14, 2021;Apr-21, 2021;Apr-28, 2021;
Mar-18, 2021; Mar-31, 2021; Mar-18, 2021

TAP Media References

- "Why is this PCIe Card RADIOACTIVE?" video from Linus Tech Tips Youtube Channel highlighting the TAP Time Card
- "The most accurate Raspberry Pi clock IN THE WORLD! Can it do PTP?" video from Jeff Geerling Youtube Channel highlighting the TAP Time Card
- "Put An Atomic Clock in Your PC - Open Source Time Card" video from Gary Explains Youtube Channel explains the TAP Time Card
- "Facebook shares its Time Card atomic clock tech to speed internet services" article from C|Net
- "Supercharges Precision Timing for Facebook’s Next-Generation Time Keeping" developer blog from NVIDIA

References & External Links

- Spanner, TrueTime & The CAP Theorem by Eric Brewer, Google
- Sundial: Fault-tolerant Clock Synchronization for Datacenters by Google Inc. and Harvard University
- Practical Uses of Synchronized Clocks in Distributed Systems by Barbara Liskov
- Stanford Paper
- On Time Synchronization Issues in Time-Sensitive Networks with Regulators and Nonideal Clocks
- Accurate Network Clock Synchronization at Scale
- Exploiting a Natural Network Effect for Scalable, Fine-grained Clock Synchronization
- SIMON: A Simple and Scalable Method for Sensing, Inference and Measurement in Data Center Networks
- New Guidelines for Inclusiveness