Monday Morning Meeting 01/22/18

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

Attendance

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

News / Meetings / Visitors

  • Klara Shabun start date 1/23
  • CASA F2F agenda ideas/discussion - https://safe.nrao.edu/wiki/bin/view/Software/CASA/CASAF2F_2018Feb
  • Build/Test Process Review
    • CASA review completed - feedback used to plan 5.4 process updates
    • Pipeline review TBD
    • Feedback page comments resolution still owed
  • Development Process updates (beginning with 5.4)
    • CASR project for requirements management
    • CAS project for development only
      • Planning to reduce number of ticket types
      • Planning to reduce number of stages in ticket workflow
    • Confluence Cleanup
      • High level work tracking of release cycles (next evolution from 5.3 page)
      • Designs and working data for longer term development items (looking at Creately plugin)
  • Confluence Calendar Cleanup

Development

Pipeline

  • Pipeline F2F likely to be May 7~11
  • CASA 5.1 / Pipeline
    • Complete
  • CASA 5.2 / Pipeline / HPC
    • Complete
  • CASA 5.3 / Pipeline
    • CASA / Pipeline callibrary integration
      • standard ALMA interferometry use case works
      • issue with undefined / missing calibrations and calflagstrict
    • use of atmospheric plot overlays in plotms waiting in CASA plotms validations
    • plotcal to plotms migration, prototyping in progress
    • support for multi-vis ephemeris images waiting on CASA
  • Pipeline
    • implementing support for multi-vis matching of spws by name rather than id in imaging code
    • support for antenna selection in imaging code, for dealing with mixed array observations
    • single epoch imaging for VLASS

HPC

  • CASA 5.2 (prerelease-5.2.0-5)
    • General performance issues fixed - CAS-10794.
    • No issues found with several nodes / many cores.
    • Looks ready. There are open issues for the future:
      • CAS-10857 - "Differences in pipeline runs between serial and parallel (HPC) testing - hif_findcont and hif_makeimages" (tclean weights and findcont sensitivity to parallel/serial differences)
      • Differences in warnings and error messages between serial and parallel runs.
  • 5.3 - Development, bugfixes
    • Discussed the possible solution for the VLA problems with uvcontsub. CAS-10697: uvcontsub does not work in parallel mode with 'combine=spw' - in progress
    • Created CAS-11076: mstransform needs a way to create a normal MS from an MMS

Users

  • New benchmarking-plots CASA lustre/naasc/ serial vs parallel attached
  • Revised CASA website online
  • European Week of Astronomy and Space Science 3-6 April: slot for talk available (D. Petry), but would need volunteer.

Build, Release

Verification Testing

Validation Testing

Architecture

AOB

Developer Reports

Monday Meeting
  • Sanjay Bhatnagar
  • Sandra Castro
    • 5.3 Development
      • CAS-10568: Plone content: Global Task List - flagcmd - Ready to Verify
      • CAS-10310: doc strings need to be updated to reflect "MeasurementSet" - Ready to validate
      • CAS-10383: flagdata should fail if datacolumn=RESIDUAL and MODEL or virtual MODEL columns don't exist - ready to validate
      • CAS-10697: uvcontsub does not work in parallel mode with 'combine=spw' - in progress
      • CAS-4888: flagdata functional tests should test with MSs that contain virtual model columns - in progress
  • Lindsey Davis
    • Resumed work on ALMA pipeline infrastructure code
      • Installed current software, and reactivated desktop test environment
      • Installed local git repository, investigating current branching "standards"
    • Verification testing of CASA callibrary changes
    • Pipeline input parameter refactoring and testing (vdp parameters), working for ALMA, some VLA issues
  • Bjorn Emonts
  • Pam Ford
    • continued 5.3 work for plotting CalTables (BPOLY, GSPLINE) in plotms
  • Enrique Garcia
  • Bob Garwood
  • Kumar Golap
  • David Mehringer
  • George Moellenbrock
  • Dirk Petry
  • Martin Pokorny
  • Federico M Pouzols
    • Miscellaneous mstransform/cvel tickets, WIP: CAS-10446, CAS-10584.
    • CAS-11059: clarification of 'width' parameter in mstransform/cvel2.
    • PRACE course at LRZ Leibniz Supercomputing Center: Introduction to hybrid programming in HPC, MPI/OpenMP
    • Going back to changes to flagging/rflag interface and documentation: CAS-5808, CAS-5809, CAS-10036.
  • Urvashi Rao
  • Darrell Schiebel
    • CASA++
      • CASAtools
        • builds with Python's setup.py & GNU autoconf
        • builds with Python 3.* and 2.7
      • CASAviewer (current "casaviewer" built and distributed stand-alone)
        • builds with qmake & minimal config
        • builds with Qt4 or Qt5
        • working on packaging with AppImage (linux) & regular OSX App
  • Ville Suoranta
  • Takahiro Tsutsumi
Friday NAOJ Meeting
  • Kanako Sugimoto
    • DONE sideband separation task, sdsidebandsplit ( CAS-8091): Done and under validation
    • DONE add reindex option to sdbaseline and sdsmooth ( CAS-10789): Done and under validation
    • DONE duplication of FITS keyword in images generated by sdimaging (and clean) ( CAS-8248): Done and under validation
    • DONE update plotbandpass to support Nobeyama ( CAS-11031): Transferred updates by Todd in analysisUtil to the CASA task. Branch merged.
    • wip Plone document of sdsidebandsplit ( CAS-11041): started the work
  • Wataru Kawasaki
  • Takeshi Nakazato
    • management
      • start discussion about 5.4 requirement decision
      • updated documentation for sdms tool based on reviewer's comments ( CAS-9706, thanks Wataru)
      • resolved CAS-7320feed selection
        • validation was basically done using artificial data
        • there is no hope to get real data useful for testing
    • CAS-10927 bug fix for undefined spectral reference frame of image produced by tsdimaging: Under Validation
    • CAS-9956 performance degrade of sdcal (calmode='otf'): RESOLVED
    • CAS-11056 performance degrade of sdcal (calmode='apply'): RESOLVED
  • Renaud Miel
    • CAS-8087plotms pointings
        • decision was made with Takeshi that implementation should be done by implementing a TVI. TVI implementation ongoing.

-- TakeshiNakazato - 2018-01-10

Topic attachments
I Attachment Action Size Date Who Comment
benchmark_manual_reduction.pdfpdf benchmark_manual_reduction.pdf manage 28 K 2018-01-22 - 09:58 BjornEmonts Benchmark-plot lustre serial/parallel manual reduction VLA data
benchmark_tclean.pdfpdf benchmark_tclean.pdf manage 17 K 2018-01-22 - 09:58 BjornEmonts Benchmark-plot lustre serial/parallel tclean ALMA data
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