Usage for getgain Return to directory of Todd's CASA extensions This function is now in analysisUtils.getgain() See also the casaguides page for this function. Th...
Science Data Model Resources and Documentation SDM V1.1 The "missing tables" section simply lists a few major glaring omissions. I am working on proposals for ...
Pulsar Observing Documentation This page describes the capabilities for pulsar observing with the VLA. It also provides information about how to set up pulsar ob...
Pulsar Observing Scope Description: The pulsar observing mode commissioningcovers the testing, development and documentation of observingstrategies and post proc...
Real time Pulsar Software Directories, environment, etc * All source code, programs are installed in /opt/cbe local/yuppi * Currently code is owned by user...
Welcome to the home of NRAO Public Wiki.EVLA. This is a web based collaboration area for people involved in the Expanded Very Large Array project. Software Tracki...
Document created to allow for a concise, central location of things needed for phased array mode of VLA. The following is intended as an (internal?) set of steps...
EVLA Commissioning, Science Verification Twiki Group List * ecsv mail list * http://listmgr.cv.nrao.edu/mailman/listinfo/ecsv EVLA Commissioning Lin...
RSRO Observing Preparation Guidelines Updated 02 Dec 2010: aim at general RSRO rather than just high frequencies. Updated 03 Apr 2010: remove need for bracketing ...
NRAO Public Wiki.EVLA Web Preferences The following settings are web preferences of the NRAO Public Wiki.EVLA web. These preferences overwrite the site level pref...
TelCal Release Notes TelCal 1.5.41 (08 Sep 2011) TelCal 1.5.41 was deployed to production today (9:00 am). * Upgraded bdfReader from 1.0.2 to 1.0.3 and evla c...
EVLA Software Versioning Goal * At minimum to understand (at all times) the current version of all of the constituent software/firmware components involved in...
ECSV Daily Log 2011 October 21 Oct (Weekend) Hi folks Lots of testing on various fronts (3 bit, RSRO, holography, gain linearity). Some progress even! but no...
Phased Array Scope The EVLA will be used in phased array modes for two main types of science: VLBI, and time domain studies of pulsars and transients. This grou...
This is a subscription service to be automatically notified by e mail when topics change in this EVLA web. This is a convenient service, so you do not have to com...
Benchmarking Coherent Dedispersion for the EVLA This page documents benchmarking of coherent dedispersion on various systems as a preliminary step towards impleme...
CBE Release Notes 20110817.0 A new version of the CBE s/w is available. This version fixes a bug in wcbe 20110811.0. Tag: wcbe 20110817.0 Repository: * https:...
Configuration Mapper Release Notes Release notes located at: /export/home/mccc/services/mccc/vciMapper.ReleaseNotes.txt 04 Aug 2011 CM Release: 2011 08 04 Minor ...
Executor Release Notes 2.2 2.2.0 (15 Aug 2011) Deployed August 15, 2011 at 13:30 MDT Changes: (per Barry and Ken) * 1. Fixed the "midnight bug". * 2. Ch...
Real time Monitoring with d10 Where /home/mchost/evla/bin/d10 How * d10 1 2 will show all available products for the baseline EA01 EA02, and will plot the co...
Understanding the Scheduling Priority Algorithm New (OST version 1.09 (03Jun11)) Scheduling Priorities Every SchedulingBlock can have component priority rating...
all,a handful of us got together this afternoon, and here is what was decided.1. we will take one more "standard" 3 bit test dataset, then will be done with testi...
The 4band situation as of today: 1) Ken seems to have been wrong about what is happening to the data going through WIDAR. It seems that for each antenna there is ...
VCI Configuration Mapper (CM) Sonja Vrcic CM source code is located in widar/mccc/vciMapper. Directory vciMapper contains java code and files build.xml and build....
CMIB Release Notes 2011 Apr 27 * The CMIB code that has been running on the correlator (racks 1 7) has been made 'official' and place in a new boot directory ...
EVLA Commissioning Organization Goal Bring the EVLA into full operation at the end of 2012, offering the maximum possible range of capabilities to the user commu...
High Frequency Meeting 24 Feb 2011 From high frequency commissioning meeting on February 24, 2011: The discussion this week was about strategies for finding hig...
High Frequency Observing Scope Description: The high frequency observing mode commissioning covers the testing, development and documentation of observing strat...
Spectral Line Observing Modes Scope Description: The spectral line observing mode commissioning covers the testing, development and documentation of observing s...
Low Frequency Observing Scope Description: The low frequency observing mode commissioning covers the testing, development and documentation of observing strateg...
From high frequency commissioning meeting on February 03, 2011: Item 1: John Cannon presented a brief description of his Ku reference pointing test, which he has...
Demo Science Preliminary Plan for making quality EPO images To increase public awareness and appreciation of the EVLA, the NRAO will produce a series of high qua...
23 November 2010 Summary of heuristics meeting. November 17, 2010 Our long term goal is to optimize science observing efficiency by providing feedback about the ...
calcodes are generated based on observing intents established during the SB creation. These intents are then passed along to the SDM data set. These are summarize...
Data Review Guide Data Review Elements to include for problem reporting * Antenna(s) antennas (or baselines) on which the issue is seen. * Band(s) seen...
Data Quick Look Tools These tools exploit the TelCal solutions for the calibrator data as well as other monitoring data (e.g., weather). The data is available dur...
CBE Rollback Installation of the CBE software is completed by using the stow command. In the production environment, all available CBE software versions are in th...
Archive Component Rollback Instructions Archive servlet Each released version of the archive servlet code is is saved in an svn branch and tagged with names cont...
MCAF Pre Release Testing * There are two versions of MCAF running at any given time, the production version on mc2host and the test version on mctest. *...
TelCal Pointing/Reference Pointing Pointing Introduction * The Pointing function in TelCal yields two distinct sets of data. * A Reference Pointing sol...
OPT Roll back instructions Dave Harland Let's say version N of model to script test program (m2s) is in production and we want to retreat to version N 1. * Luc...
MCAF Rollback Rich Moeser A tag is created in SVN for each release of MCAF. Although it's possible to grab the tag and rebuild the application, it's much easier t...
TelCal Pre Release Testing Keith Cummings TelCal tests by saving SDMs of interest and running them off line. 1. Save a SDM of interest to my local file system....
Operations Software: Rollback instructions Different versions of the Operations software are available at the Ops software page: * http://www.aoc.nrao.edu/asg ...
CBE SW Build Instructions Pokorny Here are the build instructions for CBE software. All build/run pre requisites are checked by the configure script. * svn co...
A new version of the operators software has been released. Changes and bug fixes: http://www.aoc.nrao.edu/asg internal/software/evla/stable/ets/ets 1.6.2 25jun20...
Ops Software Deploy Versions can be accessed at: http://www.aoc.nrao.edu/asg internal/software/evla/ Notifications of new versions are sent out via evla tests mai...
OPT Build and Deployment *All information for the OPT, RCT, SCT (and associated programs) can be found at: https://staff.nrao.edu/wiki/bin/view/EVLA/SSS Main.Jo...
Executor Build and Deploy (For this example assume the following versions: new = 1.2.0, old = 1.1.1, test = SNAPSHOT) BUILD * Make sure all modified source fi...
MCAF Build/Deploy Moeser Instructions on how to build MCAF: 1. SVN Checkout This section describes how to checkout MCAF from svn into a build directory, e.g., /h...
A new version of the Executor has been released. Changes and bug fixes (per Barry): The Executor update of May 13, 2010 introduced a bug in which it is pos...
Juergen, I deployed TelCal 1.5.14 to test and production today. evla telcal 1.5.14 (15jun2010) Fixed bug writing the PNT data file when there is no Pointing da...
Resident Shared Risk Observer Guide Introduction The RSRO program offers participants early access to the growing capabilities of the EVLA as it is being commiss...
EVLA Observing Band Checkouts * P Band Status: Testing * Antennas with no P band Rx: 7, 16, 22, 24 (no feed); 1, 4, 5 Rxs are not working. * L Band S...
Juergen, I deployed TelCal 1.5.13 to test and production today. evla telcal 1.5.13 (27may2010) Updated the AntsolMessageSender to send one message per subband....
A new version of the operator's software has been released. For a list of changes and bug fixes click on this link: http://www.aoc.nrao.edu/asg internal/software...
New version of CBE s/w installed in WIDAR production environment. Tag: 20100521.0 Repository: https://svn.aoc.nrao.edu/repos/widar/tags/wcbe/20100521.0 Stow di...
Juergen, I deployed TelCal 1.5.12 to test and production today (completed at 9:13 AM local time). evla telcal 1.5.12 (20may2010) No longer prettifying the ants...
Juergen, I deployed TelCal 1.5.11 to test and production today. evla telcal 1.5.11 (10may2010) Updated the path to the SVN repository and to the Eclipse files ...
New version of CBE s/w installed in WIDAR production environment. Tag: 20100504.0 Repository: https://svn.aoc.nrao.edu/repos/widar/tags/wcbe/20100504.0 Stow di...
New version of CBE s/w installed in WIDAR production environment. Tag: 20100430.0 Repository: https://svn.aoc.nrao.edu/repos/widar/tags/wcbe/20100430.0 Stow di...
Juergen, I deployed TelCal 1.5.10 to test and production today. evla telcal 1.5.10 (27apr2010) Updated maven compiler to use java 1.6. Moved delayUp files to...
Main.FrazerOwen 23 Apr 2010 (Lowband is the term being used for the new receiver system for frequencies 500 MHz. It should also be understood to cover any acti...
As of April 21, we have three test files we need to run to be able to perform initial sanity testing of the existing algorithms: All are for L band. Two are to te...
New version of CBE s/w installed in WIDAR production environment. Tag: 20100420.0 Repository: https://svn.aoc.nrao.edu/repos/widar/tags/wcbe/20100420.0 Stow di...
A new version of the Executor has been released. Changes and bug fixes (per Barry): 1) Infrastructure for revised autophasing. 2) Switch to 20 Hz heartbeat. ...
Juergen, I deployed TelCal 1.5.9 to test and production today. evla telcal 1.5.9 (19apr2010) SdmSocketListener no longer filters out sdmInfo messages if they a...
Juergen, I deployed TelCal 1.5.8 to test and production today. evla telcal 1.5.8 (08apr2010) Acceptable beamwidth range in pointing changed from 1.6,2.4 to ...
New version of CBE s/w installed in WIDAR production environment. NB: This is the version that has been installed, and therefore used for scientific observations,...
OSRO Commissioning Test Group Purpose The purpose is to subject each and every OSRO observation to scrutiny by a scientific staff member. Problems found are to b...
Meeting Information * 1930 UT (1330 MDT) * AOC 317; IP: 146.88.16.8; phone: 1 575 835 7370 Agenda/Minutes News * Many high frequency projects observed...
Meeting Information * 1930 UT (1330 MDT) * AOC 317; IP: 146.88.16.8; phone: 1 575 835 7370 Agenda/Minutes News * Good open house on Saturday (492 peop...
A new version of the Executor has been released.Changes and bug fixes (per Barry):1) Feed a osculating orbit description to CALC.2) Change port number for vciMapp...
New version of CBE s/w installed in WIDAR production environment.Tag: 20100329.0Repository: https://svn.aoc.nrao.edu/repos/widar/tags/wcbe/20100329.0Stow director...
Juergen,I deployed TelCal 1.5.7 to test and production today.evla telcal 1.5.7 (26mar2010) Fixed new day = new file error for the Peek and PointingDetails files....
New version of CBE s/w installed in WIDAR production environment.Tag: 20100319.0Repository: https://svn.aoc.nrao.edu/repos/widar/tags/wcbe/20100319.0Stow director...
Juergen,I deployed TelCal 1.5.6 to test and production today.evla telcal 1.5.6 (22mar2010) The state==0 kludge now insures that the scanIntent is CALIBRATE_POINT...
Test Observation Submission/Tracking Joan Wrobel Michael Rupen * Discuss the desired observations at the 1330 Monday Commissioning meeting. * Consult t...
Juergen,I deployed TelCal 1.5.5 to test and production today.evla telcal 1.5.5 (15mar2010) Turned on data validation in pointing. Turned on deletion of BDF file...
New version of CBE s/w installed in WIDAR production environment.Tag: 20100312.0Repository: https://svn.aoc.nrao.edu/repos/widar/tags/wcbe/20100312.0Stow director...
I tried out Sonja's new CM. This said reasonable things to the CBEbut did not configure the BlB to send frames. I've reverted to theold version for now. ...
New version of the VCI Configuration Mapper is available on the MCCCserver. This version forwards VCI Activation ID to CBE (in messages configand deconfig).Restar...
Juergen,I deployed TelCal 1.5.4 to test and production today.evla telcal 1.5.4 (09mar2010) Instead of determining the arrayConfiguration by heuristics, it is now...
New version of CBE s/w installed in WIDAR production environment.Tag: 20100309.0Repository: https://svn.aoc.nrao.edu/repos/widar/tags/wcbe/20100309.0Stow director...
A new version of the Executor has been released.Changes and bug fixes (per Ken and Barry):1) Main change is getting right address and protocol for CM.2) Relaxed t...
Juergen,I deployed TelCal 1.5.3 to test and production today.evla telcal 1.5.3 (01mar2010) The BDF files can be deleted after reading them depending on a flag in...
A new version of the operator's software has been released.For a list of changes and bug fixes click on this link:http://www.aoc.nrao.edu/asg internal/software/ev...
# Commissioning Task Leader Guide ## Commissioning Target Plan Each high level commissioning target represents required core functionality (linked to the EVLA pr...
Juergen,I deployed TelCal 1.5.2 to test and production today.evla telcal 1.5.2 (22feb2010) Fixed NPE caused by commenting out the "continue;" along with the No_A...
Several new deploys last week.http://www.aoc.nrao.edu/~jbenson/archivedocs/deployedVersions.lisJohn Deployment history Archive related software JMB 2009 11 09...
I have changed the widar schema test.jar to point to version 3.5.2,which may have interesting consequences._____________________________________________ Main.Ju...
Juergen,I deployed TelCal 1.5.1 to test and production today.evla telcal 1.5.1 (16feb2010) Fixed bug in the SDM's Main table row look up. Changed the weather da...
Several of new deploys last week.http://www.aoc.nrao.edu/~jbenson/archivedocs/deployedVersions.lisJohn Deployment history Archive related software JMB 2009 11...
Sonja, David H., Ken, Barry, and I spent the day checking Executorcontrol of WIDAR. This was quite successful. We now have Executor sending VCI to Configuration ...
For those interested, Rick's test data set discussed in this and the lastfew e mails is WICloopCtr_001.55236.00132274305and is available in the usual formats i...
Juergen, I deployed TelCal 1.5.0 to test and production on Friday. evla telcal 1.5.0 (05feb2010) Initial Focus Code. Refactored creation of ReadRandom in Tel...
A few new ones,http://www.aoc.nrao.edu/~jbenson/archivedocs/deployedVersions.lisJohn Deployment history Archive related software JMB 2009 11 09 report : ar...
Juergen,I deployed TelCal 1.4.2 to test and production today.evla telcal 1.4.2 (12jan2010) Setup flags passing interface for antsol. Using Flags in antsol. Fix...
Thursday Jan. 14 starting about 9:30, I will be upgrading the kernelson all the rhel5 Linux machines at the VLA (mchost, cbe control,lando, etc). This will requir...
New version of CBE s/w installed in WIDAR0 production environment.Tag: 20100111.0Repository: https://svn.aoc.nrao.edu/repos/widar/tags/wcbe/20100111.0Stow directo...
Keith Cummings wrote: Juergen, I deployed telcal version 1.4.1 to test and stable environments today. Thanks, Keith evla telcal 1.4.1 (06jan2010) Updated...
A few redeploys last week :http://www.aoc.nrao.edu/~jbenson/archivedocs/deployedVersions.lisJohn Deployment history Archive related software JMB 2009 11 09 re...
A few redeploys last week :http://www.aoc.nrao.edu/~jbenson/archivedocs/deployedVersions.lisJohn Deployment history Archive related software JMB 2009 11 09 re...
A few redeploys last week :http://www.aoc.nrao.edu/~jbenson/archivedocs/deployedVersions.lisJohn Deployment history Archive related software JMB 2009 11 09 re...
I just installed a new version of the CBE s/w in the "daily"(production) WIDAR0 environment.Tag: 20091218.0Repository: https://svn.aoc.nrao.edu/repos/widar/tags/w...
Couple of new deploys last week. Johnhttp://www.aoc.nrao.edu/~jbenson/archivedocs/deployedVersions.lisJohn Deployment history Archive related software JMB 200...
Hi Juergen.I deployed TelCal 1.4.0 today on both my weekly and daily environments.evla telcal 1.4.0 (15dec2009) Updated evla commons dependency to 1.4.8 SNAPSHOT...
Updated CBE s/w installed in production ("daily") widar0 environment on 7 Dec 2009.Tag: 20091207.0Repository: https://svn.aoc.nrao.edu/repos/widar/tags/wcbe/20091...
Couple of new deploys last week. Johnhttp://www.aoc.nrao.edu/~jbenson/archivedocs/deployedVersions.lisJohn Deployment history Archive related software JMB 200...
Hi Juergen.I deployed telcal version 1.2.0 today to both my weekly and daily environments.evla telcal 1.2.0 (07dec2009): Fixed Subscan row lookup in the SDM's Su...
I have committed a change that implements the delay component ofautophasing. If there is interest, we could do an update, andI could provide a python script which...
Put in an extra long day, but finished up removing Raltrons from the Correlator. All racks are now Raltronless. All racks should be running whatever Bruce has as ...
Removed the Raltrons from all 8 Station boards in S001. Everything there looks fine to my eyes. Also moved the baseline board that was in b101 t 7 (that wouldn't ...
I checked in, under svn, the latest models.c for the delay models. It is the current version running on the station boards.Thanks, Hichem Main.JuergenOtt 20...
So's you know...K Scott upgraded the OS on the CBE nodes this morning. Michael Forwarded message Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2009 13:06:41 0700From: K. Scott Rowe ...
evlatests Antenna 1 phases are fixed. The L305 was swapped out on Nov 19 evening and theantenna phases are stable since then._____________________________________...
Michael,There is a new release (18Nov) of the StB binaries which will haveTiming FPGA version 12B9 or 18 Nov 2009. This will do better on the Btime code but ...Da...
Since I plan on being out Mon Wed next week, these are the updates in the current working CMIB sftware (all boards except for the PTC)Timing: TIC bug fixTIC table...
Forwarded message Date: Thu, 19 Nov 2009 12:35:53 0700 (MST)From: John M Benson jbenson@nrao.edu To: mrupen@nrao.eduCc: vdhawan #64;nrao.edu, bbutler@nrao.eduS...
New version installed on 13 Nov (tag wcbe 20091113.0). Major change: get scan and subscan numbers from Observation documents sent by the Executor. Martin Main...
Hi,you might want to record the time of this though it is onlyone of many fixes. Yet to come is the global change of signon the phase, which will probably be ...
A new version of the operators software has been released.Changes and bug fixes: http://www.aoc.nrao.edu/asg internal/software/evla/stable/ets/ets 1.5.9 17nov2009...
I'm keeping my version history in a file, deployedVersions.lis, which ifit suits you guys, I'll just attach it to a Monday email...It lives in :http://www.aoc.nra...
It was learned some time ago that imaging with WIDAR data created maps that were, for some bands, reflected about the origin. That is, the derived image is rotate...
We have at last gotten around to configuring the sideband flippersso that the correlator produces net upper sideband data regardlessof the sideband of the data pr...
Hi Juergen.I deployed telcal version 1.1.5 today to both my weekly and daily environments.evla telcal 1.1.5 (13nov2009):1. Updated evla commons dependency to 1.4....
Yesterday I loaded a software update into the CPCCs. This build provides the infrastructure upon which the full CPCC requirements implementation can begin to be a...
Hi Juergen.I tagged and deployed a new version (tag) of TelCal today:evla telcal 1.1.4 (09nov2009)This version is installed on my Weekly (production), Daily (test...
CBE s/w currently installed on production WIDAR0 CBE:wcbe 20091029.0Other available versions:wcbe 20091019.0wcbe 20091015.0wcbe 20091013.1wcbe 20090728.1The deplo...
Hi Rick we took a little bit of data for you around 5pm on Friday 6nov09. See/home/casa dev 11/mrupen/WIDAR0/L_baseband_008.55142.00862739583*This is a full 1 G...
Today I removed the Raltrons from the boards in racks 5,7. This involved boards from s005 t 0,1,2,3 and s007 t 0,1. Boards are back in place (in their original sl...
Hi Emmanuel et al. another WICloop with good calibrators I hope! from Tuesday 3nov09: WICloop.55139.93608097222Again this may be found as SDM, MS, and U...
Hi Michael,It looks like the latest WSC observing script was not used in these two runs, where the offset calibrator is a point source (2005 7753) rather than the...
Main.LarryR 18 Dec 2008 This is a brainstorming area for projects related to extragalactic polarization studies. At present it is free form for people to simply ...