Hi Viduneth- I would add a couple notes to Ben's reply-
1) The latest Ubuntu versions use Predictable Interface Naming to assign names to ethernet devices. Licensing Matlab 2012b requires an internet connection configured as ‘eth0’, so you may need to rename your connection. See https://askubuntu.com/questions/767786/changing-network-interfaces-name-ubuntu-16-04 2) This isn't specific to any OS, but be sure you assign an IP address to your 10GbE interface that formats in binary starting with a 0. I had our server configured to pull data off the 10GbE connection using an IP like 172.xxx.yyy.zzz, and the ROACH2 re-interpreted it using two's-complement binary. Again, nothing to do with Ubuntu per se, but it might save you a big headache. 3) While we use the ADC1x5000-8 cards, I've never had a problem using a python script on either Ubuntu 14.x or 16.x. best, Brent Graner University of Washington On Friday, October 26, 2018 at 4:41:41 AM UTC-7, viduneth wrote: > > Dear Casperites, > > I am trying to set up an NFS boot system to boot the ROACH-2s and program > them on a fresh server. I have done this before, but a couple of years > back with Ubuntu 12.04 OS (with Xilinx 14.4 and Matlab 2012b for MSSGE > flow). Starting this task now I would like to see the possibilities of > moving to a newer Ubuntu version (16.04 LTS 18.04 LTS) or any other modern > Linux distribution without being stuck to Ubuntu 12.04. > I would be much grateful if any experienced personnel would give me some > inputs on this regard. > > Specific concerns: > 1). I understand that Xilinx 14.x and Matlab 2012b are a constraint for > doing the compilation for ROACH-2. And I hope the NFS boot setup could go > in any of the newer Linux distributions. > > 2). If I use these newer Ubuntu OSs will there be any restrictions for > installing Xilinx 14.4 and Matlab 2012b ion them? > > 3). We use the ADC16x250-8 cards with ROACH-2s quite often and use the > Casper provided python scripts for programming them. I don't think these > scripts are OS depended as far as we have the dependencies in the correct > versions. But I wanted to know if the OS version will impose any > constraints on installing these dependencies... > > Thanks so much for your time on this, > Viduneth > > -- > Research Assistant, > Florida International University, > Miami, FL. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "casper@lists.berkeley.edu" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to casper+unsubscr...@lists.berkeley.edu. To post to this group, send email to casper@lists.berkeley.edu.
