Monday Morning Meeting 04/02/18

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• Phone: (434) 817-6524

News / Meetings / Visitors

• Completed CARTA F2F in Taiwan 3/27 - 3/29
  • Four attendees from South Africa IDIA (Institute for Data Intensive Astronomy)
  • Agreed to redirect front end work to IDIA and Klara while back end work remains with ASIAA
  • Both NRAO and IDIA need functional CARTA release within ~6 months
• Working to fill CASA developer vacancy - assembling interview panel + questions

Development

• CASA 5.3
  • All development should be finished and in validation
  • https://open-confluence.nrao.edu/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=7046483
  • Release date planning
• CASA 5.4
  • Working with developers to define development lists

Pipeline

• CASA 5.3 issues
  • Pipeline CASA callibrary testing completed successfully
  • MS / MMS flagmanager compatibility and error traping issues affect pipeline restoredata functionality
  • Multi-vis ephemeris target imaging testing successful
• Development
  • Meeting to discuss imaging targets with Crystal, Remy, Dirk, Kana
  • Discussion of spw ids, names, and the portability of the cont.dat file which describes source line and continuum regions
  • VLA QA system initialization problem under investigations
  • Improvements to pipeline error handling

HPC

Users

Build, Release

Verification Testing

Validation Testing

Architecture

• Warnings Summary

AOB

Developer Reports

Monday Meeting

• Sanjay Bhatnagar
• Sandra Castro
• Lindsey Davis
  • Exportdata / Restoredata development in support of separate ALMA calibration and imaging pipelines
  • CASA callibrary testing
  • Followup on CASA MS / MMS flagmanager issues
• Bjorn Emonts
• Pam Ford
• Enrique Garcia
• Bob Garwood
• Kumar Golap
• David Mehringer
• George Moellenbrock
  • CAS-10977: cal lib: added improved file parsing (from Pam) to applycal so field names w/ spaces will work; Lindsey/Brian re-validated successfully, pull request TBD.
  • CAS-8556: VLBI fringefit: extensive testing/validation; some minor repairs that seem to improve accuracy; awaiting further testing results from JIVE
• Dirk Petry
• Martin Pokorny
• Federico M Pouzols
• Urvashi Rao
• Darrell Schiebel
• Ville Suoranta
• Takahiro Tsutsumi

Friday NAOJ Meeting

• Kanako Sugimoto
• Wataru Kawasaki
• Takeshi Nakazato
• Renaud Miel
  • CAS-8087 PlotMS pointings: creating small testcase data for verification & unit tests
    • selection of a subset of circles from a double-circle scan pattern: circles whose center are best aligned with a specified regular polygon
    • next step is to perform the final selection on the original MS using the time ranges defining the circles
      • that is: keep only data for which the pointing direction interpolated at MAIN timestamps and converted to J2000 belongs to the specified circles
  • Intel Parallel Studio 2018 Update2
    • • investigated issue: by default Vtune amplifier fails to attach to CASA
      • solution: $ AMPLXE_RUNTOOL_OPTIONS=--no-altstack amplxe-gui &