Work Status

17 May 2010

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ALMA  
Archives  
CASA  
CIS  
EVLA  
GBT Latest news - CommissioningMeeting10May14
Cometary Workshop this week.
Guppi  
Interactive Services  
Management  
Pipelines  
VAO  
VLBA  
Web  

03 May 2010

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Algorithms  
ALMA Integration/testing of next release (R7.1) in progress. Technical problems at the site has limited 3-antenna observing. Replacement for Wicenec (A. Manning) announced.
Archives The EVLA is now producing 100 GB per day. Data ingestion is working well. The computer which runs the data pipeline is overloaded. Several new NGAS machines have been received.
CASA  
CIS  
EVLA
GBT Latest news - CommissioningMeeting10Apr30
Upgrading Joe Masters from a temporary position to a permanent position; still working on KFPA. smile
KFPA coming off the telescope tomorrow. Hopefully, we'll be circulating some commissioning images for public consumption soon.
Guppi  
Interactive Services It is now about one month before the next cycle. We should have a test release today. This should include improved support for proposal referees and a separation of the porposal and user databases.
Management  
Pipelines  
VAO It seems that the final budget process is complete. We hope that the grant will be available soon. The project will have 90 days to produce a program plan. A meeting at CalTech in June is the presently proposed forum to develop this further.
The IVOA Interop meeting is May 17-21 in Victoria.
VLBA  
Web We have a fully functional plone installation that authenticates against AD.

19 Apr 2010

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Web Infrastructure for robust Plone/Zope (Content Management System) environment in the works.
EVLA Installed version 1.03 of OPT on webtest. Main new features:
  1. Information in script to tie projects in OPT's database with the Archive.
  2. Tracking of the status of a scheduling block through its lifecycle.
  3. Less memory consumption by projects.
GBT Latest news - CommissioningMeeting10Apr16
ALMA Meeting in CV to discuss correlator data processing performance (Van Vleck correction, too-small data transfers). Administrative change: correlator software moved into control subsystem.
ALMA Release R7.1 in integration phase (due to be tested at the high site in June).
GBT Richard Prestage will be rejoining the scientific staff in GB starting in June. He'll be here this week for some meetings.
Topic revision: r1 - 2010-10-17, GarethHunt
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