Monday Morning Meeting 8/6/2018

  • DIAL-IN NUMBERS & PASSCODES:
  • IP: 192.33.117.12##8110
  • Phone: (434) 817-6524

Attendance

  • Socorro:
  • CV:
  • Garching:
  • SCO:

News / Meetings / Visitors

  • Welcome Neil Schweighart
  • Bug in Cycle 5 non-square mosiacs - some re-processing required, investigation ongoing
  • New Lustre file system is much slower than old - fsync() calls in casacore at least partially to blame
    • Only affects new lustre at CV
    • No easy SW fix

Development

  • 5.4 development (should be) complete - branch imminent (not a release branch)
    • Pipeline and JAO integration bug fixes will go in to branch
    • Final ALMA release 5.4.0 will occur after JAO completes testing (~ September)
    • VLA/VLASS release 5.4.1 TBD when they are ready - several additional requirements/development going in to this one
  • 5.5 development cycle starting now
    • Will set up new Confluence page
    • Send development item ideas to Ryan
    • Stakeholder meetings and science requirements will be delayed another ~3 weeks
    • Will use interim time for CASA 6 work and design inspections

Pipeline

  • Need to decide whent to branch.
  • The final VLASS blocker (RFI flagging heuristics) is in. Updated after the meeting. B Kent reported an issue in weblog. So it is not quite ready yet, but I believe it is close.
  • ALMA still has some tweaks
  • most of the tclean and performance issues are in managable level (?)

HPC

Users

Build, Release

Verification Testing

Validation Testing

Architecture

AOB

  • The warnings summary seems to be frozen since March.
  • Who is responsible for importuvfits? New ticket CAS-11726

Developer Reports

Monday Meeting
  • Sanjay Bhatnagar
  • Sandra Castro
  • Lindsey Davis
  • Bjorn Emonts
  • Pam Ford
  • Enrique Garcia
  • Bob Garwood
  • Kumar Golap
  • David Mehringer
  • George Moellenbrock
  • Dirk Petry
  • Martin Pokorny
  • Federico M Pouzols
  • Urvashi Rao
  • Darrell Schiebel
  • Kanako Sugimoto
    • Reported status and requirements for user defined ephemeris tracking and partial Sun observations in Cycle 7 ( CASR-295, SCIREQ-1112)
    • developments
      • DONE Turn of high frequency band QA warning for Band 8 data ( CAS-11721): switched off the QA for Band 8.
      • DONE changing phasesnr threshold in spwphaseup ( CAS-11717): done
      • DONE "208.82% flagged message" ( CAS-11713): could not reproduce
      • wip adding achieved RMS to aquareport ( CAS-11175): export of RMS of all images succeeded. Need to tweak XML tag and filtering by representative source and spw.
      • wip Duration of task execution time in weblog ( CAS-9718): modification done. waiting for feedback by PWG.
      • wip Updating flag template preamble ( CAS-11382): ready for modification but the proposal from PWG looked too long for examples in preamble. Suggested to make it shorter.
  • Ville Suoranta
  • Takahiro Tsutsumi
Friday NAOJ Meeting (26 July, 2 August)
  • Wataru Kawasaki
  • Takeshi Nakazato
    • wrapped up CASA 5.4 Confluence page
    • validated CAS-11501
  • Renaud Miel
  • Suminori Nishie
    • CAS-11427 Unit Test (UT) for PointingDirectionCalculator (25 functions).
      • Some vulnability but with my mistake were discoverd with G-Test result.
        • Internal paths were clarified, by exception throw routes and resulted value.
      • Coding Google-Test Programme (In progress)
        • Testing Constructor() by G-Test on new design. (Mostly done, upating)
        • Testing selectData() function by G-Test code by using picked up MS. (80% done)
      • Coding MS Table/Column data modifying function (Challenging in progress)
        • MS table manupilation of table/column/vaiours type of primitive data , strictly follwing casacore programming reference to know more about MS, hopefuly more about Low-Level IO..

-- TakeshiNakazato - 2018-07-25
Topic revision: r14 - 2018-08-08, TakeshiNakazato
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