Monday Morning Meeting 8/13/2018

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

Attendance

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

News / Meetings / Visitors

  • CASA Architect interviews underway
  • CASA SW Engineer vacancy announcement in the works
  • Martin transfer to ngVLA
  • Pam working CARTA
  • Meeting Agenda template changes
    • Drop Architecture category
    • Drop HPC as standalone category, integrate in to Build/Test
    • Neal to start filling in Verification Test category when ready
    • Add CARTA section

Development

  • casacore modernization project initial planning underway
  • ALMA Cycle 6 release status (aka 5.4.0)
    • only fixes requested by ALMA/pipeline at this point
  • VLA 19 release (aka 5.4.1)
  • Development Trunk (now prerelease 5.5)
    • accepting all tickets
  • 5.5 Planning
    • Science requirements TBD early September
    • Design/documentation catch up and CASA 6 work in the interim

Pipeline

  • ALMA Cycle 6E2E tests: end-to-end test observations are delayed by snow storm at the site.
    • ALMA is under recovery from the snow. Array should be back in operation this week.
    • workflow tests using Cycle 5 E2E data should be able to proceed.
    • During shut down, some E2E6 projects are "observed" with Cycle 6 software in simulation mode but they are not valid for pipeline tests. Visibility and Tsys are dummy and causes a lot of problem when processed by pipeline. No indication simulation mode in ASDM.
  • Pipeline release branching for ALMA today or tomorrow.
    • Most of the feature developments planned are in place. Still a bit more imaging tickets left + tweaks may come.
    • several bug reports from lager test suites last week.
  • VLA developments will continue on trunk (VLA patch target date Mid October. VLASS SE IP one is TBD)
  • PWG has concern that casa-prerelease has been failing over weekend. Quick fixes are very much appreciated.
  • SRDP busy week planned in August 28-31.

HPC

Users

  • Mosaic gridder problem (CAS-11653)
  • Parallel MMS processing: growing number of Helpdesk tickets
  • Knowledgebase section in CASA Docs? (HD NRAO-11642)
  • CASA Newsletter, release October: contributions welcome

Build, Release

Verification Testing

Validation Testing

Architecture

CASA6

Finished refactoring of asdmSummary, MS2asdm, asdm2MS, and bdflags2MS stand-alone executables into member functions of an sdm tool. This was about a three week effort. The importasdm task test has been refactored into a tool test for these methods. Now I will refactor the importasdm task to use this sdm tool along with an appropriate test.

Failing task unittests:
  1. test_bandpass
  2. test_flagdata
  3. test_imhead
  4. test_immath
  5. test_immoments
  6. test_mstransform
  7. test_partition
  8. test_specflux
  9. test_split
  10. test_tclean

AOB

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
  • Kana Sugimoto
    • Management
      • Discussion with Juergen about VLA patch timeline and targets.
      • Execution information (# of processes) to manifest ( CAS-6956): policy discussiom with Remy and Stewart. Coordination with relevant subsystems is complete.
    • Development
      • wip Issue report: bandpass solution interval heuristics fails in high S/N case ( CAS-11749): problem understood. Thinking of how to fix it.
      • DONE add achieved sensitivity to aquareport ( CAS-11175): done. coordination with AQUA team OK.
      • DONE?: Error in image RMS calculation for wrapped image due to tclean ephemeris issue ( CAS-11742): investigated codes and explained why it fails. I don't think a fix is needed in pipeline. tclean should be fixed for ephemeris imaging ( CAS-11743)
      • DONE trivial improvements: warning message ( CAS-11718), improve preamble of template ( CAS-11382), findContinuum replacement ( CAS-10785)
  • Ville Suoranta
  • Takahiro Tsutsumi
Friday NAOJ Meeting (9 Aug)
  • Wataru Kawasaki
  • Takeshi Nakazato
  • Renaud Miel
  • Suminori Nishie
    • CAS-11427 Unit Test (UT) for PointingDirectionCalculator (25 functions).
      • 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. (95% done)
        • Coding MS Table/Column data modifying function (Prototype DONE)
      • MS table manupilation ( add/remove a new/ an existing column) for testiting various type of MS tables conditions.
        • Prototype coding started working. Designing internal interface and revise for ANTENNA and POINTNG Tables.

-- TakeshiNakazato - 2018-08-08
Topic revision: r8 - 2018-08-13, KanaSugimoto
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