VEGAS Pulsar Project Meeting - Sprint Review: 2017 December 18th 14:00 - 15:00pm ET

Present

• Joe, Jason, Ryan

Sprint Story Overview

• VE-357: Monitor frequency scripts/scans on 12/5 (COMPLETE)
• VE-358: Astronomical commissioning (IN PROGRESS)
• VE-359: Compare pulsar mode data to compare with GUPPI (IN PROGRESS)
• VE-360: Acceptance testing (IN PROGRESS)
• VE-361" Add in FITS MR into M&C (COMPLETE)
• VE-368: Add utils into repo (COMPLETE)
• VE-305: Update release notes (INCOMPLETE)
• VE-312: Matrix spectral line regression testings (COMPLETE)
• VE-356: Troubleshooting performance issues (COMPLETE)

Story Details

VE-357: Monitor frequency scripts/scans on 12/5

• Joe and Ray found and fixed a bug in the LBW8 frequency switched mode and the VEGAS online data display

VE-358: Astronomical commissioning

• Ryan has discussed plans with the scientific staff and asked Toney to schedule time for motion tests
• Ryan will test all pulsar modes and do A/B tests on a bright HI source, and with a test tone injection, for FSW and TP spectral line modes 1, 4, 10, 15, 20, and 29

VE-359: Compare pulsar mode data to compare with GUPPI

• This is in progress for data Ryan took during the Thanksgiving shutdown

VE-360: Acceptance testing

• See VE-358

VE-361" Add in FITS MR into M&C

• Joe added a table to the VEGAS engineering FITS files containing the location of the VEGAS ADC spurs
• This was part of a previous MR and will be released with the new M&C release

VE-368: Add utils into repo

• Ryan has done this
• Joe is going to work on an install script

VE-305: Update release notes

• Ryan still needs to do this

VE-312: Matrix spectral line regression testing

• This has been done as part of preparations for the M&C release

VE-356: Troubleshooting performance issues

• This is related to times that the net thread seemed to be overrunning the GPU thread
• Getting inconsistent bandwidth to GPU
• Joe is happy with how this looked during M&C release testing

VEGAS Pulsar Project Meeting - Sprint Planning: 2017 December 18th 2:00 - 3:00pm ET

• Joe will be moving on to 20-m work during the next quarter.
• Ryan will support the planned release of the HBW modes and work on any additional tasks as possible
• Not much additional work is expected during FY18Q2