Socorro: Jeff, Lindsey, Juergen, Susan, Martin, Pam, George, Sanjay, Urvashi, Tak, Kumar, Jim
CV: Akeem, Darrell, Andy, Dave, Ville
Garching: Julian, Justo,
SCO:
News / Meetings / Visitors
ALMA ObsMode
ICT-2020
No Meeting May 18
Build, Release, Testing
Fixes for issues are in, need testing to verify fixes.
Architecture
Technical Forums:
HPC
Development
Casa 4.5 planning
Pipeline
ALMA observing modes meeting
full automation requires public antenna position and flux catalog services
for interferometry pipeline emphasis on imaging and science ready data products
for single dish pipeline emphasis on commissioning
CASA 4.3.1 / ALMA interferometry pipeline: ongoing final acceptance testing
CASA 4.3.1 / EVLA interferometry pipeline: waiting for CASA setjy fixes validation, running in automatic mode
imaging development
NAASC will provide continuum identification and imaging heuristics development support using tclean
ARC(s) will test pipeline imaging tasks using Cycle 2 data
meta support
pipeline will work with ALMA archive and group in Italy to auto-generate meta-data
AOB
Developer Reports
Monday Meeting
Sanjay Bhatnagar
Refactoring of cfcache classes.
Galactic center data imaging (parallel tests with A-config)
Sandra Castro
Lindsey Davis
ALMA observing modes meeting May 5 - 7
testing ALMA pipeline on full polarization data sets
ALMA interferometry pipeline error handling improvements for session support
Pam Ford
plotms performance tests when loading cache (CAS-7474)
CAS-7517 RTT - issue warning to user when plotting WEIGHT instead of requested WEIGHT_SPECTRUM column
Worked on CAS-4592 - plots corrupted in GUI after export on several versions of Mac OSX - no progress
Kumar Golap
Justo González Villalba
Prepared a new design proposal for the Tier-2 parallelization case
Investigated 4.4. mstransform unit test failures related with precision issues and cross-platform compatibility
Investigated MSTransformIterator problems reported by plotms in the single dish context
Jim Jacobs
Jeff Kern
ALMA ObsMode Meeting
Users Committee Presentations
Susan Loveland
CAS-7522: Channel conformance error in MS reported by viewer
CARTA
State Save/Restore Work
Remove window caption bars making settings available through menu; make user settings visibility part of state.
David Mehringer
3 days vacation, 2 days in office
Discussions with Mark and Darrell re: getting me an OSX development environment. At some point, the plan was to get me an account on razor so I could VNC there and develop on a machine on which a CASA development environment is actively maintained. But that plan appears to have expired, so it seems I'm back to trying to get a development environment on my old MAC laptop. Step 1 is for IT to upgrade the OS to whatever version CASA supports now. Step 2 as it sounds like is to get Ville to configure/install the third party CASA dependencies since I've wasted far to much time in the past trying in vain to do that. Step 3: Profit.
Jeff forwarded me mail from an AIPS list re: possible UVFITS issue. User said he was going to make further inquiries at ASTRON because it might be an underlying casacore issue and said if/when necessary, he would raise the issue with the CASA group. So, at this point I'm waiting and seeing. And since most of the UV FITS code is in casacore and we currently do not have a trunk version of casacore to which I can commit modifications, not much I can do presently anyway.
(CAS-7523) MSMetaData::getNetSidedbands() should return actual values from MS: Ger and I started this discussion while I was on vacation and I opened a ticket for it when I came back. After inspecting the code, I have a reasonable solution, which I cannot implement until I have commit rights to casacore trunk.
(CAS-7499) ia tool used in imstat online help examples: Updated ages old doc example to use imstat rather than ia.statistics().
(CAS-7485) Modify SubImageFactory interface: created interface so extra cloneII() step is no longer necessary and cleaned up implementations. Modified callers and removed now unnecessary code. Awaiting commit rights to trunk casacore to clean up remaining bits.
(CAS-7268) importuvfits creates inconsistent MS: Modified ms_cmpt::from_fits() and python task wrapper to be more consistent with current exception throwing patterns so that message priority is correctly tagged as SEVERE.
Attended PMD talk.
George Moellenbrock
CAS-7478: added sanity check on spw and fitspw parameters (checkin on release branch pending)
Investigating parametrized (e.g., antpos) solutions in cal library.
Dirk Petry
worked on tests to judge impact of Boost differences between OSX and RHEL for wvrgcal
CAS-7270 and ICT-3873: work on ephemeris handling in importasdm; nearly done; should still go into the 4.4 release
Martin Pokorny
Added parallelizable iteration control at C++ layer to new prototype tclean -- all components in the new framework are complete. Started on design report to send around for comments.
Urvashi Rao
Continued making functional test programs for tclean (with detailed failure messages to aid debugging).
Some user support and email discussions.
Darrell Schiebel
Ville Suoranta
Light at end of tunnel on importasdm
Julian Taylor
Takahiro Tsutsumi
Added setjy workaround for CAS-6463 (force to set fluxdensity=-1 internally)
tClean zero rest frequency handling CAS-7490 (fixed for cube as well as mfs case)
Started to rework on Stokes Q/U/V image bug (CAS-7362) in tClean to be ready for check-in