Re: [casper] sharing CASPER equipment

2018-01-28 Thread Jason Manley
Hi Tom We switch firmware around on our boards regularly (~20min observation windows) on KAT-7 and MeerKAT. But we maintain control of the various bitstreams ourselves, and manage the boards internally. There is a master controller which handles allocation of processing nodes to various

[casper] sharing CASPER equipment

2018-01-28 Thread Tom Kuiper
I'm interested in experience people have had using the same equipment installed on a telescope for different projects using different firmware and software.  Have there been issues with firmware swapping?  Are there software issues that cannot be managed by using a different control computer