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

2012-03-16 Thread Laura Vertatschitsch
Casperites, Thank you so much for all of the information and the speedy replies. This is such a kind community to work with. We will get this guy running yet! --Laura On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 4:08 PM, Louis Dartez wrote: > Hello Laura, > >At UT Brownsville we use > this

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

2012-03-16 Thread Louis Dartez
Hello Laura, At UT Brownsville we use thiscard on a machine running CentOS 5. Since CentOS is basically RedHat or Fedora, I don't think you'd have a problem with compatibility. -Louis P. Dartez On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 a

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

2012-03-16 Thread Dan Werthimer
hi laura, some info on NIC's is at: https://casper.berkeley.edu/wiki/Recommended_10_GbE_Hardware but these part numbers are a bit old - there are several newer model NIC's available from both myricom and chelsio. i recommend myricom's NIC's. make sure you get one with CX4 port(s). chelsio works w

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

2012-03-16 Thread Laura Vertatschitsch
Any specific recommendations for a 10Ge NIC? Our sys admin is warning us about the compatibility with Red Hat (I think we are running red hat 6 on the computer we would like to stream to.) He had suggested that thisma

Re: [casper] KatADC documentation and questions

2012-03-16 Thread Nimish Sane
Hi Andrew, Thanks for this information. To be more specific, we would like to change the attenuation in the KatADC RF front end every 20 ms and we can allow up to 1 ms of dead time/settling time. Do you think this can work? A related question is how to change this attenuation. I tried using a so

[casper] wideband spectrometer

2012-03-16 Thread f.schilliro
Hi everybody, it's Fancesco from Italian INAF, Radiotelescope of Noto. I'm a beginner using ROACH, I've mounted wideband spectrometer tut 3 on my roach (r_spec_2048_r105_2010_Jul_26_1205.bof) and I think the connections to IF, clock (800 MHz with O dBm) and sync should be right, because I'm abl