Dear Colleagues,
We are happy to formally announce the plans for this year's CASPER
workshop. See below for details.
Look forward to enthusiastic participation from all casperites. Please
mark your calendars.
--Yashwant Gupta.
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First announcement of the CASPER 2011 Workshop
10-14 October 2011, National Centre for Radio Astrophysics (NCRA), Pune, India
This year's workshop of CASPER (Collaboration for Astronomy Signal
Processing and Electronics Research) will be held at NCRA, Pune in India,
from 10 to 14 October 2011. Typically attended by about 100 international
astronomy digital signal processing experts, the annual meeting of the
global collaboration traditionally includes a review of the past year's
accomplishments, future plans for development of new instruments and
tools, a review of the latest global trends, and hands-on training for old
hands and new recruits alike. 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.
Historically CASPER DSP hardware has been FPGA-based, but in the recent
years, CASPER has explored other options also, such as GPU computing, fast
multi-core CPUs, and heterogenous computing that exploits the best of
FPGAs and these new techniques. As a result, the annual CASPER workshops
have become an excellent forum for fruitful exchange of ideas as well as
for learning about the various techniques.
This year's CASPER workshop will be hosted by the National Centre for
Radio Astrophysics of the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, and will
be held in the city of Pune, located about 180 km south-east of Mumbai, in
India. A day long optional visit to NCRA's Giant Metrewave Radio
Telescope (GMRT) is planned on Saturday, 15th October, immediately after
the workshop ends. October is a particular pleasant time to visit India,
and we look forward to an enthusiastic participation from members and
supporters of the CASPER community, including newcomers wishing to join.
Formal registration for the workshop will open shortly. There will be a
registration fee of $50 for students, and $150 for others. We expect to
have some amount of funds available to support travel costs for students.
We look forward to seeing you in Pune this October.
Yashwant Gupta, on behalf of the SOC.
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Prof. Yashwant Gupta | Phone: +91-20-25719242 (Pune)
Dean, GMRT Observatory | +91-20-25696105 (Pune)
National Centre for Radio Astrophysics | +91-2132-252119/258316 (GMRT)
Tata Institute of Fundamental Research | Fax : +91-20-25692149/25697257
Pune University Campus, Pune 411 007 | email: [email protected]
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