Dear Casperites, We are nearly at full capacity, but we have a few places left. The closing date for registration will now be the *31st May 2019. *If you are keen (I mean, why wouldn't you be?) then please register on the following site:
CASPER HPW 2019 Registration Form <https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1TtD5cl7QxyYNFwrDXT2pqOXNOrBHKLG-PsJ4236k6FY/edit> Read previous email below for more detailed information. Kind regards, Adam Isaacson South African Radio Astronomy Observatory (SARAO) Hardware Manager Cell: (+27) 825639602 Tel: (+27) 215067300 email: aisaac...@ska.ac.za On Wed, Mar 6, 2019 at 10:55 AM Adam Isaacson <aisaac...@ska.ac.za> wrote: > Dear Casperites, > > The funding has been approved! I am pleased to announce that the next *CASPER > Hardware Porting Workshop* will be held in *South Africa, HartRAO* > (Hartebeesthoek Radio Astronomy Observatory, now part of SARAO). > > The workshop dates will be from the *8th July - 12th July*, so save the > date. Registration will be on Sunday the *7th July. *The workshop ends on > the 12th July, but for those staying on site, feel free to depart on the *13th > July*. > > The *attendance fee is free* for all. The SA and African partner *final > year/post graduate* *students* that attend will be fully covered for > accommodation, food and travel. There is some CASPER funding for overseas > travel, but it is very limited. The rest will need to provide for their own > accommodation and travel. > > There is accommodation that exists on site (hostels and there should be > container homes) and all food will be covered if staying on site - includes > breakfast, dinner and some after snacks and drinks. I will send out a list > of all the suggested accommodation in the surrounding area when I receive > it. Sponsored students will only be staying on site. > > The workshop will provide morning tea+snacks, lunch and afternoon > tea+snacks. There will be a welcome dinner, tour of HartRAO and evening > entertainment arranged! *Did I mention we will be giving away a few > sponsored development kits to the best students and non-students? Did I > mention goodie bags? :)* > > The results of the doodle poll indicated that 14 people could attend. I > expect that number to increase. We can accommodate a maximum of 40 > attendees at this venue, which is a good number for this kind of event, > based on past experience. I have also had a few students contact me outside > the student poll. > > In this workshop we will be focusing on toolflow porting tutorials that > target the Red Pitaya, but feel free to bring other hardware platforms. I > will finalise a list of the supported platforms and software closer to the > time. We probably won't be able to support everything, but I will confirm. > Alas, this means that ROACH2 and ISE will probably not be supported. > > In terms of the training venue, there are 40 Ubuntu machines (i3 x 10 and > i5 x 30), with 4GB RAM and 500GB Hybrid HDD each. We (SARAO) will provide > an extra 4 x beefy machines for compiling purposes, but feel free to bring > your own lap tops, if you have one. We will provide ssh and vnc connections > to our beefy machines. There is internet (each machine is connected to a > 1Gbps Ethernet Switch), but *please note this is a radio quiet zone, so > no Wi-Fi - cell phones must be switched off on site!* > > VMs will be provided for you to copy and take with you - no licenses will > be provided though. > > We will also have many experienced toolflow facilitators (University of > Berkeley, SARAO and hopefully others) on hand should you have any > questions. There will also be daily presentations to help connect the dots > quicker. > > Okay, *so interested yet?* :). I am going to send around a google form > shortly with a few questions and if you are definitely IN then fill this in > and submit it. *NB: *To our SA/African partner final year/post grad > students, please send me your CV and a one page motivation for this > training directly via this email only (aisaac...@ska.ac.za). We will be > connecting with the SA universities shortly as well. > > Watch this space for further info and feel free to email me directly with > any questions you may have. Looking forward to it! :) > > Kind regards, > > Adam Isaacson > South African Radio Astronomy Observatory (SARAO) > Hardware Manager > Cell: (+27) 825639602 > Tel: (+27) 215067300 > email: aisaac...@ska.ac.za > > -- 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.
