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Monday May 17
| Time GMT | Time California (GMT-7) | Time South Africa (GMT+2) | Agenda Item | Presenter |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 14:15 | 7:15 | 16:15 | Welcome remarks and the State of Casper (Video) (PDF) | Kathryn Plant and Jonathon Kocz |
| Session Chair: Dan Werthimer | ||||
| 14:30 | 7:30 | 16:30 | Event Horizon Telescope (Video) (PDF) | Sara Issaoun |
| 15:00 | 8:00 | 17:00 | Bringing RFSoC to CASPER (Video) (PDF) | Mitch Burnett |
| 15:30 | 8:30 | 17:30 | Modular, Portable, and Reconfigurable DSP with GNU Radio (Video) (PDF) | Derek Kozel |
| 15:45 | 8:45 | 17:45 | A High-Throughput Oversampled Polyphase Filter Bank using Vivado HLS and PYNQ on a RFSoC (Video) (PDF) | Jenny Smith |
| 16:00 | 9:00 | 18:00 | SWRDS: SMT Wideband Radio Digital Spectrometer (Video) (PDF) | Arash Roshanineshat |
| 16:15 | 9:15 | 18:15 | Break | |
| Session Chair : Amish Patel | ||||
| 16:30 | 9:30 | 18:30 | GNU Radio X-Engine at the ATA (Video) (PDF) | Michael Piscopo |
| 16:45 | 9:45 | 18:45 | MeerKAT Correlator Beamformer and the Next Generation (Video) (PDF) | Tyrone van Balla |
| 17:00 | 10:00 | 19:00 | Integrating the Alveo into the CASPER Ecosystem (Video) (PDF) | Wesley New |
| 17:15 | 10:15 | 19:15 | Sparklers (Many Short Talks) (Video) (PDF) | |
| 17:30 | 10:30 | 19:30 | Break | |
| 17:45 | 10:45 | 19:45 | Xilinx (Video) (PDF) | Patrick Lysaght |
| 18:15 | 11:15 | 20:15 | Discussion: New Hardware (ADCs, FPGAs, Alveo boards, GPUs …) (Video) (PDF) |
Tuesday May 18
| Time GMT | Time California (GMT-7) | Time South Africa (GMT+2) | Agenda Item | Presenter |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sessions Chair: Tyrone van Balla | ||||
| 14:15 | 7:15 | 16:15 | Applications Based on SNAP2 (Video) (PDF) | Lin Shu and Liangtian Zhao |
| 14:30 | 7:30 | 16:30 | A Re-architected GNU Radio Framework for Heterogeneous System (Video) (PDF) | Bastian Bloessl and Joshua Morman |
| 15:00 | 8:00 | 17:00 | Ponderings, plans and progress: The MeerKAT+ GPU based F-Engine (Video) (PDF) | Andrew van der Byl |
| 15:15 | 8:15 | 17:15 | The Tensor-Core Correlator (Video) (PDF) | John Romein |
| 15:30 | 8:30 | 17:30 | A python-based GPU X-Engine for MeerKAT+ that uses Nvidia’s Tensor Cores for correlation (Video) (PDF) | Amish Patel |
| 15:45 | 8:45 | 17:45 | An FPGA-GPU digital back-end for the pathfinder of the Deuterium Experiment Telescope (Video) (PDF) | Vinand Prayag and Nitish Ragoomundun |
| 16:00 | 9:00 | 18:00 | Break | |
| Session Chair: Jack Hickish | ||||
| 16:15 | 9:15 | 18:15 | NVIDIA BlueField Data Processing Unit (Video) (PDF) | Beno Badash |
| 16:45 | 9:45 | 18:45 | NVIDIA Cloud Scale Efficiency (Video) (PDF) | Gadi Godanian |
| 17:15 | 10:15 | 19:15 | The U-Board – a heterogeneous platform for FPGA and GPU based signal processing (Video) (PDF) | Gerrit Grutzeck |
| 17:30 | 10:30 | 19:30 | A Novel GPU-based Real-Time Imager for Compact Radio Arrays (Video) (PDF) | Hariharan Krishnan |
| 17:45 | 10:45 | 19:45 | Bifrost (Video) (PDF) | Jayce Dowell |
| 18:00 | 11:00 | 20:00 | Data Acquisition with Hashpipe: Past, Present, Future (Video) (PDF) | Dave MacMahon |
| 18:15 | 11:15 | 20:15 | Break | |
| 18:30 | 11:30 | 20:30 | Discussion: Backend Pipelines (Video) (PDF) | |
| 19:30 | 12:30 | 21:30 | Tutorial: Bifrost (Video) (PDF) | Jayce Dowell |
Wednesday May 19
| Time GMT | Time California (GMT-7) | Time South Africa (GMT+2) | Agenda Item | Presenter |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Session Chair: Jenny Smith | ||||
| 14:30 | 7:30 | 16:30 | Experiences with Intel’s OpenCL/FPGA programming environment (Video) (PDF) | John Romein |
| 15:00 | 8:00 | 17:00 | CASPER’s HDL Development (Video) (PDF) | Talon Myburgh |
| 15:15 | 8:15 | 17:15 | FFT (Video) (PDF) | Morag Brown |
| 15:30 | 8:30 | 17:30 | He6CRES experiment (Video) (PDF) | Brent Graner |
| 15:45 | 8:45 | 17:45 | A SNAP2 cosmic ray detector with FPGA-based RFI flagging at the OVRO-LWA: update from early commissioning (Video) (PDF) | Kathryn Plant |
| 16:00 | 9:00 | 18:00 | Break | |
| Session Chair: Francois Kapp | ||||
| 16:15 | 9:15 | 18:15 | MathWorks (Video) (PDF) | Robert Anderson |
| 16:45 | 9:45 | 18:45 | AXI (Video) (PDF) | Mathews Chirindo |
| 17:00 | 10:00 | 19:00 | PRP (Video) (PDF) | John Graham |
| 17:15 | 10:15 | 19:15 | Resource-optimized FPA Beamformer Prototype using CASPER Toolflow for the Expanded GMRT (Video) (PDF) | Bela Dixit |
| 17:45 | 10:30 | 19:30 | MeerKAT beamformer (Video) (PDF) | Andrew Martens |
| 17:45 | 10:45 | 19:45 | Break | |
| 18:00 | 11:00 | 20:00 | Discussion: Toolflow (Video) (PDF) | |
| 19:00 | 12:00 | 21:00 | Tutorial: CASPER Toolflow in the Cloud with Pacific Research Platform (Video) (PDF) |
Thursday May 20
| Time GMT | Time California (GMT-7) | Time South Africa (GMT+2) | Agenda Item | Presenter |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Session Chair: Kathryn Plant | ||||
| 14:30 | 7:30 | 16:30 | STARE2 (Video) (PDF) | Chris Bochenek |
| 15:00 | 8:00 | 17:00 | MeerKAT+ GPU correlator (Video) (PDF) | James Smith |
| 15:15 | 8:15 | 17:15 | The PANOSETI Transient Search Instrument (Video) (PDF) | Dan Werthimer |
| 15:30 | 8:30 | 17:30 | Jenkins automated testing in CBF for MeerKAT (Video) (PDF) | Ismail Jassiem |
| 15:45 | 8:45 | 17:45 | Recent Updates from the Real-time RFI Mitigation System of uGMRT (Video) (PDF) | Kaushal Buch |
| 16:00 | 9:00 | 18:00 | Break | |
| 16:15 | 9:15 | 18:15 | Intel (Video) (PDF) | Bill Jenkins |
| 16:45 | 9:45 | 18:45 | Parallel Discussions: RFI (PDF) and Documentation (Video) (PDF) | |
| 17:45 | 10:45 | 19:45 | Break | |
| 18:00 | 11:00 | 20:00 | More Discussions if needed | |
| 18:30 | 11:30 | 20:30 | Conference Wrap Up (Video) (PDF) |