Re: [casper] reliable data streaming protocol for 100Mbps ethernet

2012-03-14 Thread Jouko Ritakari
Hi Laura, There are several open source protocols that are reliable even in long distances. All are reliable udp-based and constant bit-rate. In 2004 we got some 400 Mbps between Netherlands and Japan, doubled the american Internet2 traffic using two normal PCs. We used the tsunami protocol

Re: [casper] reliable data streaming protocol for 100Mbps ethernet

2012-03-14 Thread Dan Werthimer
hi laura, i second john's remarks: an inexpensive 10Gbit nic card in your computer would make your data streaming task relatively easy, as there are tutorials and several instrument designs that stream data from a roach over 10Gbe into a computer. there's also a lot of good open source software

Re: [casper] reliable data streaming protocol for 100Mbps ethernet

2012-03-14 Thread John Ford
> Hey Andrew, > > Thanks for the reply - we are looking forward to the ROACH 2 in the > future. > > I haven't been able to open all of the tutorials, but I have seen a few. > So I apologize if I may have missed something obvious, and I would even > really appreciate an answer that says "hey you, g

Re: [casper] reliable data streaming protocol for 100Mbps ethernet

2012-03-14 Thread Dan Werthimer
hi laura, there are a couple of standard ways people stream data to the PPC and out over the network: ping pong memories - the FGPA write to memory A and then sets a flag saying memory A is full. the PPC code waits for this flag to be set and then moves memory A to the

Re: [casper] reliable data streaming protocol for 100Mbps ethernet

2012-03-14 Thread Laura Vertatschitsch
Hey Andrew, Thanks for the reply - we are looking forward to the ROACH 2 in the future. I haven't been able to open all of the tutorials, but I have seen a few. So I apologize if I may have missed something obvious, and I would even really appreciate an answer that says "hey you, go read about t