From j.p.emerson@qmul.ac.uk Sat Jun 21 13:44:38 2003 Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2003 16:43:58 +0100 From: Jim Emerson To: Mike Irwin , Richard McMahon Subject: FW: WFAU WSA weekly meeting minutes, 20 June 2003 [ The following text is in the "iso-8859-1" character set. ] [ Your display is set for the "US-ASCII" character set. ] [ Some characters may be displayed incorrectly. ] -----Original Message----- From: Peredur Williams [mailto:pmw@roe.ac.uk] Sent: 20 June 2003 16:35 To: Nigel Hambly; Clive Davenhall; Eckhard Sutorius; Harvey MacGillivray; Ian Bond; Mike Read; Bob Mann Cc: Andy Adamson; Jim Emerson; Andrew Lawrence; Peredur Williams; Malcolm Stewart Subject: WFAU WSA weekly meeting minutes, 20 June 2003 Minutes of WFCAM Science Archive meeting: 20 June 2003 ----------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------- Present: RGM, IAB, ETWS, JMS, PMW Apologies: NCH, MAR, HMG, AL Actions discharged: ------------------- 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. 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. ACTION: IAB to check the SSA HTM code into the CVS under SSA/src/scos2htm/... ACTION: IAB to complete SADD issue 1 by Monday June 9th am. 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. ACTION: PMW to chair the next weekly meeting (20th June). - 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. - 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: -------------------------------- Hardware: PMW reported that he met with Simon Berry (PPARC) on the 10th to finalise the RG and confirmed that the initial 75K allocated for WSA hardware was included. On the basis of quotations received from Eclipse, orders were placed on June 11 for (a) Catalogue server including 16 146-GB SCSI disks, (b) Web server and (c) LTO2 tape library. HMG reported (e-mail) that room C1 has been made ready to take the new hardware ordered. Additional power points have been put in place, and the existing kit moved around in order to provide more space. The new WSA kit will arrive during the week beginning 23rd June. There has been a blip with delivery of the rack mount unit to house the catalogue server and its 16 SCSI disks, in that the OEM stock has temporarily run dry. However, the intention is to temporarily house the catalogue server hardware in the "test-bed" rack mount unit and to transfer the kit over to the new unit when possible. Eclipse have indicated that the hardware (apart from the final rack unit mentioned above) should be in place by the end of June. PMW reported that bids were being sought for SRIF money. He had suggested more disks for the WSA Catalogue server and UPSs for our servers to carry them through power blips and shut them down gracefully if the power failed. AL, RGM and PMW were meeting on Monday to consider local bids. Software: IAB reported that work had started on coding the Perl modules and scripts that implement the curation use cases. Skeleton scripts for most of these had been written for most of these. He was systematically working through the modules defined in the SADD with the aim of completing the scripts as far as possible. Those use cases that do not involve heavy database access will be completed soon. MAR reported (e-mail) progress on the WSA/SSA user interface, specifically writing servlets to submit and parseSQL queries and results. The FITS writing, coordinate manipulation, ascii formatting are now incorporated in the SQL retriever class: see http://grendel12.roe.ac.uk/~avo/ssa/radial.html Other servlets should now follow quickly. ETWS reported progress with writing SQL Server schemas for the WSA RGM reported progress with indexing Miscellaneous: AL, IAB, MAR and PMW had attended the WFCAM observing workshop on the 12/13. DoNM: 10am, Friday 27th June, plate library (NCH back in the chair).