Hi David, I would suggest coming to the CASPER workshop in Manchester this September. I know entrance closed a while ago, but maybe they can make an exception. There is going to be a week of tutorial sessions in the afternoons where there will be "Experts" on hand to help you out with your problems.
I would firstly try setting up your compile system using Ubuntu 12.04 (My recommendation) and following these steps: https://casper.berkeley.edu/wiki/MSSGE_Setup_with_Xilinx_14.5_and_Matlab_2012bwhich are specifically for Ubuntu. If you follow these and the licences are all setup correctly then the tools should compile the latest tutorials here: https://github.com/casper-astro/tutorials_devel running using the https://github.com/ska-sa/mlib_devel (This is what we tested them against for the recent South African Mini CASPER Workshop) The tutorials will be in a better state by the end of the month as we are busy getting them ready for the Workshop. We will also be pushing a whole lot of updates to the CASPER mlib_devel repo around then. Let me know if you have issues setting up the tools and getting the tuts compiled. regards Wes Wesley New South African SKA Project +2721 506 7365 www.ska.ac.za On Sat, Aug 17, 2013 at 4:42 PM, David Saroff <[email protected]> wrote: > vCasper folks, > > Is there any mechanism for the beginner to get one on one time with a > CASPER expert? I'm making no headway. Is it me or do the tutorials not > compile? A yellow block I need for roach2 exists only for roach1, or am I > doing something wrong again? > > How does the community handle this? The experts where I am are overloaded > with work, and can not do the hand holding that I need to get started. > > I estimate that ~10 hours would be enough, and I would propose to meet for > one hour, I watch and take notes, reproduce what the expert has done and > retype my notes, and try to make more progress myself for the rest of the > day, then meet again for an hour the next day. > > I could come to you. My desktop computer has all the tools, and I would > prefer to use it, who knows, it may not be set up correctly, and that > would be the first think to fix. It is luggable. > > We could skype and screenshare. I use that for teaching remotely one on > one. I like the screensharing program "TeamViewer". > > Do novice CASPERites make a pilgrimage to Berkely? Who would I talk to > about that? > > main topics > 1) the tutorials that I can't make compile > 2) adapting yellow blocks from roach1 to roach2 > 3) black boxes > 4) what I don't know that I don't know that I don't know! > > Target: a back end for a Greenbank telescope phased array. 38 antennas at > the prime focus, in L band separately digitized will be combined and > correlated to put 7 or more beams on the sky. Fun! The 64ADC64-12 ADC is > being used, with 1 roach1 and 3 roach2's available to process its > digitizations. > > David > > >
