Re: [casper] RA Instruments using CASPER hardware and tools

2022-08-31 Thread 'Lincoln Greenhill' via casper@lists.berkeley.edu
Among current instruments, please do add: Long Wavelength Array Sevilleta (ROACH2) and VLA North Arm (SNAP-2) sites (LWA/SV, LWA/NA). LEDA is a past instrument. I decommissioned it in Feb. 2020. (ROACH2 & ADC16-250/RJ45) Cosmic Dawn Telescope pathfinder (CDT-pathfinder) is in development.

Re: [casper] CASPER 2022 workshop: registration payment problems

2022-07-01 Thread 'Lincoln Greenhill' via casper@lists.berkeley.edu
Andrea, As a laggard myself, I second Mitch's expression of thanks and apology. > Thanks to Andrea and the LOC for extending the early registration deadline a bit. And, I apologize for the folks like me who wait until the very last minute possible. Regards, Lincoln -- You received this

Re: [casper] ADCs in CASPER

2020-10-26 Thread Lincoln Greenhill
Hi Gareth, Jack, Jonathon, Nima, and I have been discussing a low-cost board to serve the N>1000 space, w/ digitization at the antenna (2 ch; ≤ 500 GS/s; ≥ 12 bits; SOC; low power; 10 GbE out). Do the above parameters overlap what you'd like to see, and do you have a price point in mind?

Re: [casper] specification of computer with NIC and GPU card to do X Engine

2015-04-01 Thread Lincoln Greenhill
Hi Lin, If I remember correctly, achieving line rate on both channels when fed from a single switch required some networking workarounds. Though solved, in the end LEDA chose to use a single channel 40 GbE so that we could simplify the system. CPU usage was also reduced by this selection.

Re: [casper] Network Switches

2014-09-03 Thread Lincoln Greenhill
John - Mellanox hides this information in the back of their manuals in my experience. Best to download. L. On 9/3/14, 9:11 AM, Jason Manley wrote: Just be careful with the 1036 and breaking the 40g ports out to 10g. you can't break out all the ports, and when you break one out, you

Re: [casper] Network Switches

2014-09-02 Thread Lincoln Greenhill
Hi John, Email is passing in the ether. I have eyed the SX1035 and SX1036 w/ upgrades in mind. What is your understanding of the difference? Lincoln On 9/2/14, 11:54 AM, John Ford wrote: hi john, jack hickish tested a mellanox SX1012 (12x40Gbe, or 48x10Gbe, or mixture), when he was

Re: [casper] 100-Gb-E NIC Cards and switches

2014-01-28 Thread Lincoln Greenhill
Hi Kris, Mellanox's 40-gE SX10## series (expandable to 56 Gb/s) has worked for LEDA w/ no pain. Does you app. preclude using twice as many links of 56 Gb/s? Best, L. On 1/28/14 1:25 PM, Kristian Zarb Adami wrote: Hello Casperites, does anyone have any recommendations for 100-gig-E NIC

[casper] SFP+ board reliability

2013-12-06 Thread Lincoln Greenhill
Hi Rich, On a related topic, we lost one SFP+ port on a board after it had been running for O(1) month. We replaced it w/ another board. The same port was dead on the new mezz. board pointing to the problem being w/ the ROACH2 board. Best, Lincoln -- Lincoln J. Greenhill

[casper] ROACH2 enclosure dimensions / not to EIA standard

2013-08-01 Thread Lincoln Greenhill
In field deployment of the LEDA correlator over the last week, we encountered significant difficulty stacking our 16 ROACH2s (rev2) in 16U. We measured the ROACH2 enclosure dimensions and found that they are not to EIA specification: 1U == 1.75 = 44.45 mm 1U frontplate = 44.45 mm 1U chassis =

Re: [casper] Spectrometer using ADC on PCI Express card feeding NVidia GPU

2011-12-07 Thread lincoln greenhill
Hi David, I agree, this would be very interesting to have in hand. I had previously asked Steve Ord about sampler cards for PCIe transfer, to mate with our GPU X-engine and learned the following: Quote from Steve (option 1): http://www.edt.com/drx16.html But it will only give you 2

Re: [casper] Specrtrometer built of ADC / FPGA / X86 and NVIDIA Cuda

2011-12-07 Thread lincoln greenhill
Hi Mikael, V. interesting. What is your disk configuration, motherboard, and processor selection? - Lincoln On 12/7/11 6:29 PM, Mikael Taveniku wrote: Regarding spectrometer built to interface directly to PCI express We actually built such a thing using an off the shelf board an x86

Re: [casper] GPU Spectrometer

2010-05-26 Thread lincoln greenhill
Hi John, Mark Wagner has worked on a design that we will take to the DSN 70m in Canberra: 2 basebands 400 MHz 16384 channels running on one ROACH. This was based on a 1M channel design. He would be a good contact, in particular about the level of optimization and available real estate. I