Registration is now open for this year's CASPER (Collaboration for
Astronomy Signal Processing and Electronics Research) Workshop, to be
held at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge,
MA. You can register and optionally submit a short abstract for a 20
minute presentation here:
http://casper.berkeley.edu/workshop_2010/
This year there will be a small registration fee of $150, reduced to
$50 for students. This will cover refreshments and some lunches over
the five days. There is a separate secure page linked from the above
page for payment of the fee. Registration is thus a two step
process. Please feel free to pre-register based on an intent to
attend. Payment of the fee will confirm your registration, and can be
completed later when you are sure you can attend. Please note that
there is a hard limit of 100 attendees, and the workshop will be
closed when we have that number confirmed. The cutoff date for
registration is 31 July.
There are also links to a wiki travel page, giving details of block
rates for nearby hotels, and suggestions for travel, airport
transfers, etc. Additional information will be added over time.
CASPER 2010 Mission Statement
Attended by about 100 international astronomy digital signal
processing (DSP) experts, the annual meeting of the global CASPER
collaboration traditionally includes a review of the past year's
accomplishments and hands-on training for old hands and new recruits
alike. Historically CASPER DSP hardware has been FPGA-based, and the
2010 CfA workshop in particular aims to reach out to the wider DSP
community so as to set a foundation for a broadened CASPER mission.
The collaboration plans to explore opportunities in heterogeneous
computing, exploiting natural synergies between FPGAs, and other
platforms such as Graphics Processing Units (GPUs), fast multi-core
CPUs, high bandwidth coherent data storage and quasi-real time post-
processing. The mission of CASPER is to streamline, simplify, and
thereby accelerate the design of astronomy instrumentation by
promoting design reuse through the development of platform-
independent, open-source hardware and software.
Please feel free to forward this message to colleagues who may be
interested. We look forward to seeing you in Cambridge.
Jonathan Weintroub, Lincoln Greenhill, Jim Moran and SOC
