Thanks a lot for the information Dr. Ben and Dr. Brent. On Fri, Oct 26, 2018 at 1:27 PM Brent Graner <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Viduneth- > > I would add a couple notes to Ben's reply- > > 1) The latest Ubuntu versions use Predictable Interface Naming to assign > names to ethernet devices. Licensing Matlab 2012b requires an internet > connection configured as ‘eth0’, so you may need to rename your > connection. See > https://askubuntu.com/questions/767786/changing-network-interfaces-name-ubuntu-16-04 > > 2) This isn't specific to any OS, but be sure you assign an IP address to > your 10GbE interface that formats in binary starting with a 0. I had our > server configured to pull data off the 10GbE connection using an IP like > 172.xxx.yyy.zzz, and the ROACH2 re-interpreted it using two's-complement > binary. Again, nothing to do with Ubuntu per se, but it might save you a > big headache. > > 3) While we use the ADC1x5000-8 cards, I've never had a problem using a > python script on either Ubuntu 14.x or 16.x. > > best, > Brent Graner > University of Washington > > On Friday, October 26, 2018 at 4:41:41 AM UTC-7, viduneth wrote: >> >> Dear Casperites, >> >> I am trying to set up an NFS boot system to boot the ROACH-2s and program >> them on a fresh server. I have done this before, but a couple of years >> back with Ubuntu 12.04 OS (with Xilinx 14.4 and Matlab 2012b for MSSGE >> flow). Starting this task now I would like to see the possibilities of >> moving to a newer Ubuntu version (16.04 LTS 18.04 LTS) or any other modern >> Linux distribution without being stuck to Ubuntu 12.04. >> I would be much grateful if any experienced personnel would give me some >> inputs on this regard. >> >> Specific concerns: >> 1). I understand that Xilinx 14.x and Matlab 2012b are a constraint for >> doing the compilation for ROACH-2. And I hope the NFS boot setup could go >> in any of the newer Linux distributions. >> >> 2). If I use these newer Ubuntu OSs will there be any restrictions for >> installing Xilinx 14.4 and Matlab 2012b ion them? >> >> 3). We use the ADC16x250-8 cards with ROACH-2s quite often and use the >> Casper provided python scripts for programming them. I don't think these >> scripts are OS depended as far as we have the dependencies in the correct >> versions. But I wanted to know if the OS version will impose any >> constraints on installing these dependencies... >> >> Thanks so much for your time on this, >> Viduneth >> >> -- >> Research Assistant, >> Florida International University, >> Miami, FL. >> > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups " > [email protected]" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > -- Research Assistant, Florida International University, Miami, FL. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "[email protected]" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected].
