Monday Morning Meeting DATE

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• IP: 192.33.117.12##8110
• Phone: (434) 817-6524

Attendance

• Socorro: Jeff, Susan, Lindsey, Martin, Pam, Juergen, Kumar, Tak, George
• CV: Jen, Andy, Akeem, Ville, Darrell, Dave
• Garching: Julian, Dirk, Justo
• SCO:

News / Meetings / Visitors

• ObsMode: Garching next week
• NRAO Users Committee
• Pipeline WG Face to Face
• Synthesis School June 1-8
• No Monday Meeting next week.

Build, Release

• New MPI version caused failures in the test system, now being cleaned up.
• Access to new bitbucket server

Verification Testing

• Spreadsheet updates:
  • People still waiting list: Jeff, Justo, George, Remy, Brian Kent

• Hardware for building/testing
  • Rxd new Mac Mini's: Sandbox for build and test, 10.10 and 10.11 test systems

Validation Testing

• Ticket cleanup, a number of assignments are out
• Competing with ALMA deadline for resources.

Architecture

• Technical Forums:

HPC

• ALMA Parallel may still be failing.

Development

• Documentation

Pipeline

• Continuum region handling in pipeline UV continuum subtraction and imaging tasks
• Added method for computing mosaic overlap factor in sensitivity computation
• HPC testing
• Ongoing flagging refactoring work
• Domain object cleanup
• Pipeline F2F at the end of May

AOB

Developer Reports

Monday Meeting

• Sanjay Bhatnagar
• Sandra Castro
• Lindsey Davis
  • Rewrote Todd's analysisUtils mosaicOverlapFactor routine for the pipeline
  • Implemented QA score and web log page for the pipeline hif_mstransform task
  • Updated hif_uvcontfit to new pipeline continuum regions file format (with Dirk M.)
  • Started testing LSRK -> TOPO frequency conversion in hif_uvcontfit
• Pam Ford
  • CAS-8487 RTT (plotms error when avgchannel='1e10') - avgchannel value > INT_MAX adjusted with warning
  • Investigated CAS-8510 (plotms averaging problem with the model column) - problem in FTMachines code with VIVB2. Assigned to Kumar assigned to Jim.
  • Continued work on CAS-8374 (port casaqt to Qwt 6). Can now plot with internal legend, no seg fault!
• Kumar Golap
  • Moving Synth Imager to VI/VB2!
• Justo González Villalba
  • Tested XCLASS 1.1.7 unit tests vs CASA-4.6.19 pre-release, found many problems, sent a test report to the group in Koln
• Jim Jacobs
• Jeff Kern
• Susan Loveland
  • CARTA
    • Spent most of the week down grading CARTA but shelved it when it became apparent my initial estimate of 1 week was way too low.
    • Some work on profile UI and converting from Pavol's profile code to image analysis one via a plugin.
• David Mehringer
  • (CAS-8511) Short cirucuit MSMetaData::getNRowMap() when subscan props exist. Resolved. Avoid unnecessary table scan.
  • (CAS-8497) exportuvfits possibly incorrectly writing antenna coordinates: WIP. PR submitted for new uvfits AN table writing/reading rules.
  • (CAS-8453) being keepaxes into imsubimage. RTT. Added documentation example as suggested.
  • (CAS-8130) add warning message to imregrid when regridding smaller channel sizes to much larger channel sizes. RTT. Augmented log message as requested.
  • (CAS-6733) mstransform on mixed VLA XY/LR data produces an unreadable MS. RTT. Fixed infinite loop bug.
  • (CAS-8509) increase effeciency of MSMetaData::getScanKeys(). Resolved.
  • (CAS-8500) imhead will crash on fully masked images. RTT. Fixed.
• George Moellenbrock
  • Continued work on ionosphere phase sign convention.
  • Investigated calibrater tool use of writeHistory. Current usage is ~useless, but unclear if MS HISTORY contributions should be limited to the python layers, as would be most convenient in MMS context. Check-in of cleanup of calibration code pending, as soon as I sort out the somewhat confusing locking stuff.
  • CAS-8475: alma-ngc3256 regression: looks like a very small change (a few 0.1% change in the rms) but apparently the net flagging has changed...
  • Refereeing a paper for MNRAS
• Dirk Petry
  • volunteered for some of the documentation work (can take more if needed, please assign)
  • re-started work on CAS-7861 (polynomial ephemeris handling for VLA data)
  • tidied up some pending tickets
• Martin Pokorny
  • started io testing on Lustre
  • VLA work (cbe + session prioritization)
• Urvashi Rao
• Darrell Schiebel * Fixed issue with install of astropy * Completed port to QWT 6.
• Ville Suoranta
  • Got Carta to build (and running) on a Mac, started working on the packaging.
  • Tried building on RHEL6, but 5.3 Qt but the glibc version in RH6 is too old. Also gstreamer version seems to be causing issues.
  • Continued investigating ASAP download issues with Vince at Csiro. The problems are less frequent, but still there.
• Julian Taylor
  • Started documenting what learned about IO system.
• Takahiro Tsutsumi
  • automask: Fixed the interface for automask with pbmask for missing parameters. Worked on the extra iteration problem, currently testing some solutions.
  • Completed test spreadsheet
  • Spent some time on science

Friday NAOJ Meeting

• Kanako Sugimoto
  • Discussion about intermittent failures of ASAP checkout at NRAO. No issue seen in NAOJ.
  • line finding in tsdfit ( CAS-7906): feature development done. Added 5 functional test. Need to look into the behavior to threshold in line finding.
• Wataru Kawasaki
  • CAS-8417: read exsting filler codes and documents kindly prepared/collected by Takeshi.
• Masaya Kuniyoshi
• Takeshi Nakazato
  • CAS-8155: defined initial version of the task plotprofilemap
  • bug report on plotbandpass ---> CAS-8489
• Renaud Miel
  • CAS-8362: RHEL7/ libsakura rpm. Fixed. Delivered rpm installing by default in /opt/casa/01 and including a RUNPATH
  • CAS-7339: tsdcal calmode=otf. Unit tests / requirements clarified. Development ongoing.