[casper] CASPER Workshop 2014 -- Registration now open!

2014-04-08 Thread Jack Hickish
Dear Casperites, Just a quick email to say that the CASPER wiki has been updated with some new details about the upcoming workshop. Check it out at https://casper.berkeley.edu/wiki/Workshop_2014 The important details -- Where: University of California, Berkeley Registration Closes: April 29, 201

Re: [casper] Problem writing to DRAM, ROACH 1

2014-04-08 Thread Madden, Timothy J.
Thanks Glenn I like the idea of copying from the file system. I am not nfs mounted, but I can scp. I got this to work by splitting into smaller writes and using the offset= setting. It is slow but at least it seems to work. Thanks for the email. def big_write(self,data): chunksi

Re: [casper] Problem writing to DRAM, ROACH 1

2014-04-08 Thread G Jones
Hi, I think I ran into similar issues, but I don't remember it being a consistent failure for a given size, just that large transfers were somewhat unreliable. I used code like this: def _load_dram_katcp(self,data,tries=2): while tries > 0: try: self._pause_dra

[casper] Problem writing to DRAM, ROACH 1

2014-04-08 Thread Madden, Timothy J.
I am using a DRAM block on a ROACH 1. I am using python to write data to the dram with corr. I create a binary array of zeros like: fa.lut_binaryIQ = '\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00.' Length of the array is 1048576. If I do roach.write('dram_memory',fa.lut_binaryIQ) It works fine. If I doubl

[casper] High Performance Signal Processing Conference, 28th - 31st October, Malta

2014-04-08 Thread Alessio Magro
Dear Casperites, I would like to inform you that we'll be organizing a conference on High Performance Signal Processing, which will be held in Malta between the 28th and 31st of October 2014. The idea of the conference is to bring all the big science projects together to find out common platforms