CASPER Workshop II - August 2-5, 2008 @ UC Berkeley

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Following the success of the CASPER Workshop held in Berkeley in Summer 2007, a new workshop is being planned for 2008.

Whereas the previous workshop focussed primarily on introductions to CASPER hardware, tools and designs, we expect that in this workshop the emphasis will shift towards projects using CASPER technology that are under development or have been deployed by various groups over the past year. We will be soliciting proposals for talks in the near future, and we hope to have most of our collaborators (including at NRAO, Caltech, Iowa, Berkeley, MeerKAT and the ATA) present their work so that everyone can learn from the collective experience of the past year's efforts.

We still plan to devote a day to introducing participants new to CASPER to our hardware and software, so that they can get up-to-speed and start building instruments.

Registration

Registration is closed.

Dates

The dates for the workshop are August 2-5, 2008. These dates have been chosen specifically so that international participants can attend both the CASPER workshop and the URSI General Assembly later in the month without having to exit and re-enter the United States.

Incidentally, many people from the "CASPER community" will be at the Radio Astronomy sessions (Session J) at URSI, so if you're not able to make it to the CASPER workshop, you should be able to speak to many people who are working on CASPER-related projects at URSI, both CASPER staff/students, and our collaborators.

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Arrival and Departure Times of Participants (useful for discussion group planning)

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Provisional Program Revised: July 31, 2008

Saturday, August 2 - Berkeley Wireless Research Center

Session Chair: Dan Werthimer

Training day. Introduction to CASPER technology for participants who haven't yet used it.

9:30 AM - Light Refreshments

10:00 AM - Welcome and CASPER Introduction - Dan Werthimer (CASPER)

11:00 AM - An Introduction to Simulink and CASPER Instrument Design - Mark Wagner, Andrew Siemion

12:00 PM - Break

12:15 PM - Instrument Interaction: TinySH - William Mallard (CASPER)

12:45 PM - Lunch

2:00 PM - An Introduction to BORPH: BEE2 and ROACH - Hayden So

2:30 PM - Fujitsu, 10 Gigabit ethernet switches - Mike Memmott

3:00 PM - Attendee Introductions and Establishment of Workshop Working Groups:
Possible Groups:
Correlators, Pulsar/Transient Instrumentation, Next Generation Technology Development (ROACH and 10.1), VLBI/eVLBI Development,
Beamforming

3:30 PM - Break

3:45 PM - Break Out
Option #1: Simulink Introduction: Blink-a-Light with Casperite Tutors
Option #2: Meet with working groups
Option #3: 15 minute lab tours (small groups)

5:45 PM - Adjourn (or stay and work)

Sunday, August 3 - Berkeley Wireless Research Center

Session Chair: Alan Langman

9:30 AM - Light Refreshments

10:00 AM - Day 2 Kickoff: Day 1 Working Group Reports - Led by Dan Werthimer (CASPER)

10:30 AM - Henry's Frequently Asked Questions: Pink vs. Green, Sync Pulses, Tool Acquisition and Installation - Henry Chen (CASPER)

11:15 AM - Break

11:30 AM - New CASPER Hardware: Introduction ROACH - Dan Werthimer (CASPER)

11:45 AM - ROACH: Reconfigurable Open Architecture Computing Hardware - Francois Kapp (KAT)

12:30 PM - Version 10.1 Xilinx Tools Update - Terry Filiba

12:45 PM - Lunch

2:00 PM - CASPER Development at Caltech for the GAVRT Project - Glenn Jones (Caltech)

2:30 PM - SETI Spectrometers - Laura Spitler (Cornell)

3:00 PM - DSP for MeerKAT - Alan Langman (KAT)

3:30 PM - Break

3:45 PM - Reconvene Working Groups

4:00 PM - Break Out
Option #1: Simulink Introduction: Blink-a-Light with Casperite Tutors
Option #2: Meet with working groups
Option #3: Design debugging session with Henry Chen (1 attendee only)
Option #4: 15 minute lab tours (small groups)

5:15 PM - Adjourn (or continue to work)

7:00 PM - Dinner at Dan, Mary-Kate and Willy's Place

Monday, August 4 - Space Sciences Laboratory

Session Chair: Don Backer

9:30 AM - Light Refreshments

10:00 AM - Micro and Mini BEE - Bob Conn

10:30 AM - Day 3 Kickoff: Day 2 Working Group Reports (CASPER)

10:45 AM CASPER Correlators - Jason Manley (KAT)

11:30 AM - Break

11:45 PM - Correlation Imaging - Mel Wright (RAL/CASPER)

12:15 - Pulsar Hardware at ATA and LOFAR - Joeri van Leeuwen (ASTRON)

12:45 - Lunch

1:45 PM - Fly's Eye: Seeking HERPES? CASPER is your friend! - Griffin Foster, Peter McMahon, Andrew Siemion (CASPER)

2:15 PM - FASR and RFI mitigation - Tim Bastian (NRAO) and Zhiwei Liu (NJIT)

2:30 PM - Allen Telescope Array Beamformer - Oren Milgrome

3:00 PM - IBOB, IADC and ROACH board production and testing - Mo Ohady (Digicom)

3:15 PM - Group Photo and Break Out
Option #1: Intermediate Simulink Design: Introduction to FPGA based DSP
Option #2: Meet with working groups for brain storming

5:45 PM - Adjourn

Tuesday, August 5 - Space Sciences Laboratory

Session Chair: Yashwant Gupta

9:30 AM - Light Refreshments

10:00 AM - Day 4 Kickoff: Day 3 Working Group Reports (CASPER)

10:30 AM - Open Mic: Suggestions and advice for future CASPER research and collaboration

11:00 AM - Signal Processing Ambitions for DSN Radio Astronomy - Tom Kuiper (JPL)

11:30 AM - Break

11:45 AM - Broadband FFT Spectrometer - Bernd Klein (MPI)

12:15 PM - GUPPi: The Green Bank Ultimate Pulsar Processing Instrument - John Ford (NRAO GB)

12:45 PM - Lunch

1:45 PM - Pulsar Instrumentation Using CASPER Technology - Peter McMahon (KAT)

2:15 PM - The GMRT: Current Status and Upgrade Plans - Yashwan Gupta (NCRA)

2:45 PM - Infrared Spatial Interferometer - Ed Wishnow (SSL)

3:00 PM - Embarrassingly Parallel Volunteer Computing - Dan Werthimer (CASPER/SETI)

3:30 PM - Break Out
Option #1: Intermediate Simulink Design: Introduction to FPGA based DSP
Option #2: Meet with working groups

5:15 PM - Adjourn

Wednesday, August 6 - Field Trip to Allen Telescope Array

9:30 AM - Depart from BWRC main entrance for ATA

Thursday, August 7 - Field Trip to Allen Telescope Array

4:00 PM - Arrive main entrance of BWRC


Friday, August 8 - UC Berkeley Astronomy Department / Campbell Hall (Host: D. Backer)

12:00 - 1:00 RAL Seminar: Jayanta Roy ["GMRT Software Backend" ](544 Campbell) (see also [GSB])

1:00 - 2:00 Lunch

2:00 - 2:30 Integrating real-time imaging systems w/ correlators (Mel Wright) (544 Campbell)

2:30 - 3:00 SETI ON ATA (SonATA) (TBD) (544 Campbell)

3:00 - 4:30 Group discussion on software backends for radio telescopes (544 Campbell)

Discussion/Working Groups

There are several opportunities during the workshop for discussion groups to meet. Discussion groups will be formed on the first day of the workshop, but the following possibilities exist:

Wireless Internet Access

At the BWRC:

Ask Henry or Dan for a username and password to use the Airbears wireless network

At SSL:

Basic Network Settings:

For PC Windows, verify your network connections settings are

Obtain and IP address automatically Obtain DNS server address automatically

For MacOS X, open System Preferences: Network: Airport: TCP/IP

The "Configure IPv4" setting should be set to "DHCP".

Connect to an access point: To use the SSL-AIR network, select the wireless network system ID (SID) "SSL-AIR". Wait a few seconds for your computer to get an automatic IP address. Now you need to authenticate to the network.

Authenticate to the network: Open a web browser and point it to any HTTP address (HTTPS addresses won't work). You should get redirected* to a HTTPS-protected login page with the SSL logo asking for your wireless username/password. This is either your SSL LDAP username and password or your guest wireless username and password. Once you enter the username and password correctly, you will be redirected to your original HTTP webpage request. Now you can use the network.

If you don't get redirected to an HTTPS-protected login page right away, hit the refresh button on your browser a couple of times -- it can take a few seconds to get an IP address for this to work.

Lost connection or connection timed out? If at any point you seem to have lost your network connection, it's possible that your login timed out (mandatory timeouts are set at 10 hours). To reconnect, simply point your browser at an HTTP address again and reauthenticate as you did initially.

Getting to Space Sciences Lab Monday and Tuesday

The Space Sciences Laboratory (SSL) street address is 7 Gauss Way, Berkeley, CA 94720. The meeting is in the main conference room of the SSL addition, the building with lots of glass doors.

To get to Space Sciences Lab, take the H(Hill) bus from UC Berkeley's Evans Hall(Heast Mining circle) to the Space Sciences Laboratory (SSL). SSL is the last stop, it's about a 12 minute ride.

H line: From Evans Hall starting at 7:40 a.m. Runs at 30 minute intervals. ° $1 • Free with Pass

From SSL 25 and 55 minutes after the hour.

Please check out http://pt.berkeley.edu/around/transit/shuttles for more info on schedules and maps.

Food

Cancun Taqueria - 2134 Allston Way, Berkeley, CA, 94704 - 510-549-0964

Grub n Go - 2109 Allston Way, Berkeley, CA 94704 (510) - 540-5282

Pho Hoa - 2272 Shattuck Ave, Berkeley, CA 94704 - (510) 540-9228

Ryowa Ramen - 2068 University Ave, Berkeley, CA 94704 - (510) 883-0667

Orso Restaurant - 2175 Allston Way, Berkeley, CA 94704 - (510) 649-2950

Dollar Curry House - 2136 Oxford St, Berkeley, CA 94704 - (510) 849-0149

Group Photo

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CASPER '08 Workshop, SSL, Berkeley, CA

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