VEGAS Team Meeting

November 19, 2012

Attendees

CALTECH, UC-B, & Columbia

Dan W, Mark, Glenn

NRAO:

Anish, John Ford, Ray Creager, Mark Whitehead

Meeting Notes:

Next Teleconference: December 3, 2012 .

VEGAS Mode Development Status:

Mode development

Testing Status:

Status of the planned tests in December:

1. ROACH-2 status
2. SFP+ boards?
3. Software changes required for R-2, if any
4. Observing modes to be tested

Action Items:

• Need to resolve Mellanox v. dual GPU issue. (John, Glenn, Dan)

Plan for the next observing

• Schedule for next tests
  • December 17th everyone arrives -- Hong Chen, Mark, Andrew, Glenn, Jayanth
  • Should get the R-2 first week of December
  • Mode 13 tests

• Glenn and Ray to test as soon as we get the R-2 next week

Other items:

Hardware procurement plans and schedules:

• New ROACHs
  • One ROACH here this week with CX-4 and SFP+ interfaces.
  • Rest of them by the end of the month of November

• New Computers?
  • Dual SB will be here, but we will only do 1 instance on it for the tests
  • Use N,S,E,W,Chicken, HPC10 and HPC11 (New SB machine)

-- MartyBloss - 2012-11-19