hi david, where are you located?
as others said, the best place to learn casper stuff is at the casper workshop. every afternoon there are laboratory exercises and experts to help with tutorials or more advanced projects. you are also welcome to come out to berkeley, and run tutorials here and discuss your beamformer. i've been advising several people at BYU on the GBT beamformer project, and they've sent a few students out to learn about it, but none of them have had strong skills in dsp or instrumentation. also, there are a bunch of casper experts at the GBT. john ford's group. and in new york, and at JPL, and at MIT, and at harvard.... best wishes, dan On Sat, Aug 17, 2013 at 7:42 AM, 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 > > >
