Glendenning
Guilloteau
Lucas
Myers
Raffi
Richer
Schilke
Schwarz
Scott
Testi
Viallefond
Wilson
Wootten
Wright
Excused: Mangum.
Minutes
Congratulations to the ATF team for the first light on the Moon.
Subsystem Scientist Activities (all)
Chris Wilson -- Pipeline I don't have much to report on my activities this month. The
remaining Pipeline issues from the IDR (like where the Heuristics
will go) are going to be discussed at a meeting at ESO Jan 27-31,
which I will be attending.
John Richer -- Telescope Calibration I last reported two months ago. In the first month, I read and
sent comments on the TelCal and Control software documents for the
IDR. The second month I was working at the JCMT and on vacation
over Christmas and did no activity on the project. A small
face-to-face meeting was arranged at short notice in Grenoble last
week, but I was not able to attend this. I believe the main
activity remains preparing for the PDR.
Steve Scott -- Correlator Working with Jim Pisano and details of correlator software -
channel averaging, blanking, etc.
Leonardo Testi -- Observing Program Preparation My contribution for last month is the list of issues on the OT
circulated for discussion on Jan 13 and the preliminary sketch on
SimLite that I will circulate as soon as I receive comments from
Francois.
Mel Wright -- Scheduling
Francois Viallefond -- Archive
Jeff Mangum -- Control Most of my subsystem scientist work with the M&C group has revolved
around the work being done at the ATF.
Peter Schilke -- Data Reduction User Interface Produced draft DRUI requirements document.
Steve Myers -- Off-Line Analysis
Unresolved issues in OT (L. Testi)
(see
list of unresolved issues in OT)
Leonardo urged the SSR to comment on his list of unresolved OT
issues. The main questions to the SSR are the first items, which affect
also scheduling.
The other are science operation issues and should be passed on to the
JAO (we still have to define the deadline for this process).
DRUI Requirements (P. Schilke)
See Peter's draft P. Schilke has received several comments and will produce a new
version in the next few days (note that he cannot attend the next
phone meeting: further discussion will be handled by email only).
Status of AIPS++ audit, and of AIPS++/IRAM test (Steve Myers / Brian Glendenning)
A
new version on the audit report draft is available. Comments are
expected till the end of this week (this concerns mainly F. Viallefond
and K.Y. Morita). Then the audit report will be released.
The Aips++ team (K. Golap, G. Moellenbrock, S. Myers) has
progressed on Phase I, the new version should be available early next
week.
A data reduction week is planned for Jan. 27/Mar. 1 in Garching
and the test is one of the issues: goals are to finalize Ph. I and
start Ph. II and III.
AIPS++ Benchmarking Plans (F. Viallefond)
F. has send a link to his proposed
plan, which was already discussed by e-mail.
A timescale should now be given (what could be available for PDR)?
Plans should be made for benchmarking AIPS too.
The end point of comparison is clear (images that conform to well
defined project science goals); the starting point of comparison
could be either a model image (this includes data generation) or raw
data fits files (this include the filling process).
The Phase III itself should be available fast enough (R. Lucas is preparing a data set based on the Phase I data set)
The Aips++ project is itself doing comparison between Aips++ and Aips.
Apart from comparative benchmarks, the main goal is to identify
areas where progress is to be made inside Aips++. This is a reason
not to exclude specific areas (e.g. glish-only steps).
Data Rate issues (S. Scott)
A
Correlator extension proposition has been made, ASAC has
reacted positively. It is proposed to evaluate the change in data
rate that this would imply in collaboration with ASAC. Steve Scott
will formulate the question to ASAC. We agreed to drop the pending
proposal for a data rate increase and to submit a new one based on
the proposed correlator extension.
