From j.p.emerson@qmul.ac.uk Fri Jun 6 15:58:08 2003 Date: Fri, 6 Jun 2003 13:37:08 +0100 From: Jim Emerson To: Malcolm Stewart , Mike Irwin , Peredur Williams , Richard McMahon , Andy Lawrence Subject: WFAU WSA weekly meeting minutes: 6 June 2003 Dear VDFS Management Team Please read these WFAU meeting minutes and feedback any comments to me. Jim -----Original Message----- From: Nigel Hambly [mailto:nch@roe.ac.uk] Sent: 06 June 2003 12:07 To: WFCAM Science Archive Team -- Clive Davenhall; Eckhard Sutorius; Harvey MacGillivray; Ian Bond; Mike Read; Nigel Hambly; Bob Mann Cc: Andrew Lawrence; Peredur Williams; Andy Adamson; Jim Emerson Subject: WFAU WSA weekly meeting minutes: 6 June 2003 Minutes of WFCAM Science Archive meeting: 6 June 2003 ----------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------- Present: NCH, MAR, IAB, AL, HMG, JMS, PMW Apologies: RGM, ETWS Actions discharged: ------------------- ACTION: NCH to chase up Amos on the status of the final runs on the SSS data on IBM's bluedwarf machine. ACTION: NCH to update Twiki page with the latest benchmarks and tests. ACTION: ETWS to start parsing scripts to generate HTML documentation from schema scripts, and analyse table parameters from the schema specifications. - all done and discharged (thanks to all concerned!) Actions partly discharged but continuing: ----------------------------------------- ACTION: PMW to draft an action plan in the light of the review panel report. ACTION: ALL to review risk register and think of any new internal or external risks that should be documented in the risk register. ACTION: IAB to finalise issue 1 of the SADD by next meeting (6th June). - continuing; thanks for progressing these. Actions carried forward from 30/05/03 meeting: ---------------------------------------------- ACTION: PMW to liaise with AL to make sure that Compute Support are made aware, from the highest "official" level, of our requirements, re. 100 Gbyte/day transfer from CASU, and to impress on them that the 1 Gbit/s FW should be their highest priority. - CONTINUES Specific points and new actions: -------------------------------- Project management: NCH reported that the "VEGA" proposal, incorporating a VDFS continuation bid, had gone in to PPARC at the end of May (AL thanked NCH & PMW; NCH pointed out that most of the really hard work was done by NAW, GG, RGM [Cambridge] and JPE). PMW reported the last monthly VDFS management telecon meeting with CASU and JPE. PMW emphasised that the next meeting will be a quarterly one and is important to review progress against quarterly deliverables and for the purposes of the review of the VDFS part of the VEGA bid. The quarterly management face-to-face is provisionally booked for 7th July. ACTION: NCH, PMW, MAR & IAB to meet on Monday 2pm next week to flesh out the next 3 weeks work against the deliverables plan and the new SADD. Hardware: PMW reported that he will be meeting with Simon Berry from PPARC to finalise the RG, with particular emphasis on the hardware allocation. NCH expressed the worry that the initial 75K allocated but more was needed out of reserved money on a timescale shorter than that any formal committee will meet on (GSC, son-of-WFAP, etc.). AL reassued the group that the understanding is now that money can be released into the grant as and when required provided a well argued case is written down and vetted by JPE and the appropriate folks at PPARC. In any case, the priority was now the exact specification of the hardware for the initial SSA prototype. NCH reported some last benchmarking of hardware and software RAID configurations (some results on the TWiki); we are almost in a position to exactly specify the first tranche of archive hardware. ACTION: NCH to specify the hardware to be ordered for the SSA before going on holiday, and email to HMG/PMW so that quotes and orders can be placed. Software: MAR reported steady progress on the WSA/SSA user interface servlets, and work is now being checked into the CVS. NCH asked IAB to check the SSA HTM codes into the CVS. ACTION: IAB to check the SSA HTM code into the CVS under SSA/src/scos2htm/... IAB reported near completion of the SADD issue 1: ACTION: IAB to complete SADD issue 1 by Monday June 9th am. ETWS has produced a schema parsing system in Python that produces web documentation from SQL schema files, detailing table organisation, general properties and attributes. The code is checked into the CVS and runs on SSA and WSA schemas, and produces very nice looking, browsable web pages. SSA: NCH reported contact with Amos over the SSS junk flagging; runs are still being done on bluedwarf. Miscellaneous: NCH again raised the issue of the WFCAM observing workshop on the 12/13. It is essential for WSA representation throughout the whole meeting; general philosophical issues concerning survey design should be flagged as important to all present. ACTION: NCH to prepare a short two-page summary on outstanding issues concerning the WSA for tabling and discussion at the WFCAM observing workshop. ACTION: PMW to organise with AL, MAR & IAB about attendance of the WFCAM observing workshop over the two days 12/13 June. NCH is away on leave for the next two Fridays; because next week is the WFCAM observing workshop, and ETWS is away; no meeting has been scheduled for then. The next meeting will be 20th June; PMW kindly offered to chair in NCH's absence. ACTION: PMW to chair the next weekly meeting (20th June). AL flagged the long term opportunity concerning SCUBA2 public surveys that may materialise. If a public survey consortium a la UKIDSS is organised, then archiving and pipeline processing opportunities may similarly arise - these are of general interest to WFAU. ACTION: NCH to type up and circulate these minutes DONM: 10am, Friday 20th June, plate library (no meeting on the 13th June).