Monday Morning Meeting 3/25/19

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

• CASA 5.5 wrapup - https://open-confluence.nrao.edu/display/CASA/CASA+5.5
• CASA 5.6 underway - https://open-confluence.nrao.edu/display/CASA/CASA+5.6
  • Development meeting needed to plan strict memory limit adherence
  • Release naming convention change - discussion cut short last week
• CASA 6
  • Stay tuned for exercise to go through and update 5.6 python task wrappers to be 2.7/3.6 compliant

Development

• Calibration and Flagging
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• Imaging
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• Measurement Set
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• Image Analysis and Casacore
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• Data Visualization
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• CASA 6
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Build / Testing

• Infrastructure
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• Unit
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• Verification
  • mstransform_subset getting in the framework
  • Getting refimager running in parallel (involves doing new test suite and some test reorganization)
  • Jupityr notebook casaguide conversion work
  • polcal test under development
  • Neal will be in Socorro to learn more about calibration
• Validation
  • Kana: status of tickets moving to PIPE?
  • Under Validation (issues remaining in validation for CASA 5.5)
    • BLOCKER CAS-11191 tclean mosaic gridder should be able to use VLA POINTING table properly averaging over visibility integration time (related to CAS-12223)
    • BLOCKER CAS-9108 Linear basis-specific 'Xf' (multi-scan) improvements (and several related polarization tickets) (merging now, need to check on docs/future tickets)
    • BLOCKER CAS-7210 (CAS-4640) Connect imaging weight gridder ( TCLEAN producing arc-like noise patterns when imaging small chunks of data when robust<1 )
    • BLOCKER CAS-11868 Fix mosweight=True to use less memory
    • BLOCKER CAS-12363 cannot run imhead/imstat more than once on an image in casa-prerelease
    • CAS-8619 Turn im.apparentsens into a CASA task -- almost done
    • CAS-11460 im.apparentsens to use the regular channel selection syntax -- almost done
    • CAS-8087 Support plotting pointing direction (R.A.-Dec.) by plotms
    • CAS-12168 L1 and outlier rejection implementation (merging now, need to check on docs/future tickets)
    • CAS-10593 Make component list prediction with beam use frequency variation -- just needs doc updates, Kumar is on it
    • George's two tickets for cal library fixes, CAS-12237 and CAS-12280 -- 12237 is validated, 12280 is being tested by Todd
  • not yet ready to validate but still needed in 5.5:
    • CAS-11367 modify test_refimager to also run in parallel when an mpi cluster is available -- validation done on prerelease for changes in CASA code, some tests still failing? (Tak will turn off failing tests, okay for 5.5)
    • CAS-12368 add depreciation warning to clean
  • and from search of JIRA for 5.5 blockers not above or closed:
    • CAS-12302 Updating XML files of CASA tasks
    • pointing tables for awproject, Preshanth to do, not yet in a CAS ticket (?), CAS-7727? (go to 5.6?)

User Liaison Updates

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Pipeline Updates

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• Wataru Kawasaki
• Takeshi Nakazato
• Renaud Miel
  • CAS-12360 Limit pointings plots to supported/verified ones
• Suminori Nishie
  • CAS-8418Higher order poinitng interpolation
    • PointingDirectionCalculator (main body) , ready to "Ready toValidate"
    • Restructuring Test-fixtutres and sub modules, clear strucure, function and interface are formed. [95% done]
      • final check for Valiation, adding comment of internal class and testing algorithm. [working]
      • checking numerical error order, with poitinting direction and given timestamp. [Working]
  • Obtaining higher C++skills, (OOD/OOP)
    • Attempting to used some of Design Pattern in gtest-code. Singleton, Adaptor was introduced.
    • Trying to find well-designed classes and/or interface .