Pulsar Machine Status and Meeting Agenda

• Meeting participants:
  • Randy McCullough, Jason Ray, Glen Langston, Amy Shelton, Rich Lacasse, Paul Demorest, Ron DuPlain, Duncan Lorimer, Brandon Rumberg, Patrick Brandt, Mitch Mickaliger

Project Status Reports

• Randy/Jason
  1. Tested BEE2 and iBOB XAUI links
  2. Working on ADC to XAUI streaming to BEE2
  3. Hooked up Xilinx programming pod to blinkin
• John
  1. Finished installing and licensing XILINX IP Modules
  2. Fixed mkbof to work on our systems for all users
• Glen
  1. Exploring Pocket Spectrometer parameters. Found that a 1K PFB/FFT fits, but not a 2K.
  2. Puzzling over how the vector accumulator and the sync signal interact.
• Ron
  1. Planning to do a sample design next week on the BEE2 experimenting with BORPH.

Known problems/discussion of issues

• Proposed Swinburne cluster

Project Plans for discussion

• GUPPi workshop -- https://safe.nrao.edu/wiki/bin/view/CICADA/GUPPIWorkshopAgenda
  1. Rich L. Suggests starting at 10:00 on Monday to avoid overnight stays on Sunday night.
  2. Amy Suggested that we try to get someone from Berkeley to come for the workshop
  3. Amy Suggested we make sure NRAO Socorro knows about it