GBT K-Band Focal Plane Array Science and Data Pipeline Workshop, Nov 26-28, 2007

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Introduction

This is a workspace to facilitate the organization of the GBT K-Band Focal Plane Array Science and Data Pipeline Workshop, Nov 26 - 28, 2007.

Conference Schedule

Monday, November 26th

Time	Presenter	Topic
8:30		Welcome/Introduction
8:40	White	Overview of the KFPA project
9:10	Maddalena	The GBT at K Band
9:40	Lockman	Science with the KFPA
10:00	Break
10:15	Remijan	Chemistry with the KFPA
10:45	Taylor	Continuum polarimetry
11:15	Wagg	High-redshift studies with the KFPA
11:45	Brogan	Molecular clouds and star formation
12:30	Lunch
2:00	Brogan	Molecular clouds and star formation - discussion
2:30	Mangum	Observing modes and array configuration
3:00	Pisano	Discussion on configuration
3:30	Break
4:00	Maddalena	Discussion on calibration
4:15	Minter	Discussion on polarimetry
5:00	Lockman	The KFPA and future GBT instrumentation

Tuesday, November 27th

Time	Presenter	Topic
8:30	Lockman	Recap of previous day's science discussions
8:40	Garwood	State of GBT data reduction software
8:50	Pipeline talks
8:50	Crossley	Pipeline basics and VLA pipeline, see also notes
9:10	Cotton	OBIT
9:40	Gopal/Heyer	The FCRAO OTFTool
10:10	Break
10:25	Willis	Design and Implementation of the ACSIS Real-Time Data Reduction Pipeline
10:55	Zwart/Tilanus	HARP Data Pipeline and LOFAR Real-Time Pipeline
11:30	Taylor/Dever	GALFACTS Pipeline
12:00	Lunch
1:00	Pipeline Demos	Same order as talks - not all pipelines will have a demo. Keep demos short. Will include a demo of Livedata if time allows.
2:00		Key Requirements
3:00	Break
3:15		Calibration
4:15		Polarimetry
4:45		Algorithms
6:00	Dinner

Wednesday, November 28th

Time	Presenter	Topic
8:30	Garwood	Review of yesterday's progress and unresolved issues
9:00		Technical Hurdles
10:00	Break
10:15		Non-technical Hurdles
11:00		The User Experience
12:00	Lunch
1:00		Data Formats (throughout pipeline and final)
2:00		Archiving
3:00	Break
3:15		Data Visualization
3:15	Tilanus	Demo of GAIA. Other unique visualization tools could be demoed here if there is interest.
4:30		Where do we go from here?

Notes:

• Pipeline talks will be short talks (30 minutes including discussion) on the basics of the various pipelines represented here (including lessons learned)
• Pipeline demos will be a session of short (10-15 minute) demos of the pipelines represented here. A demo might simply be a set of snapshots.
• A tour of the GBT will happen at some point. It takes about 2 hours. The paired maintenance days this week are Tuesday/Thursday and Wednesday/Friday. If the only available day is Thursday, then the tour will happen Thursday morning.
• There will be an informal session on Thursday, November 29th, to flesh out as much of the proposed GBT KFPA data pipeline as possible based on the discussions held the previous 3 days.

Participants

Name	Affiliation
Crystal Brogan	NRAO
Bill Cotton	NRAO
Jared Crossley	NRAO
Jeff Dever	U. Calgary
Bob Garwood	NRAO
Mike Hollis	GSFC
Jay Lockman	NRAO
Ron Maddalena	NRAO
Mike McCarty	NRAO
Karen O'Neil	NRAO
D.J. Pisano	NRAO
Larry Morgan	NRAO
Richard Prestage	NRAO
Tony Remijan	NRAO
Amy Shelton	NRAO
Russ Taylor	U. Calgary
Remo Tilanus	JCMT
Jeff Wagg	NRAO
Tony Willis	NRC/DRAO
Walther Zwart	JCMT

In addition, Mark Heyer and Gopal Narayana (FCRAO) and Tim Jenness (JCMT) will be participating remotely when possible as will a number of NRAO employees at the AOC and CV.

Data Pipeline Discussion Topics

This section has been moved to it's own wiki and organized to align with the discussion topics on the agenda for Tuesday and Wednesday. Note that these cover all aspects of the data processing problem and so to some extent many of these are independent of the any automatic processing (a pipeline).

KFPA Data Processing Issues

AOC & CV conference rooms

• AOC
  • 11/26
    • Auditorium (except from 10-11 AM MST, during lunch in GB)
  • 11/27
    • 317 up to 9:30 AM MST
    • 280 11 AM MST to end of day
  • 11/28 - no rooms available.
• CV
  • 230 except during TUNA on 11/27 and after 3 PM on 11/28, when it will move to CV-aud.
• Viewing the video stream. You should be able to do this from most PCs. This will not allow you to participate but can be used during the times when no remote rooms are available. NRAO participants should talk to your local system administrators for instructions and help in setting this up. Non-NRAO participants who wish to try this should e-mail BobGarwood. People on the NRAO network can follow this link to the internal wiki for the URL and phone for remote participation.

"To Do" List & Notes