From nch@roe.ac.uk Fri Oct 22 14:03:43 2004 Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2004 11:29:18 +0100 (BST) From: Nigel Hambly To: WFCAM Science Archive Team -- Eckhard Sutorius , Harvey MacGillivray , Ian Bond , Mike Read , Nigel Hambly , Bob Mann Cc: CCs for WSA weekly meeting minutes distribution -- Clive Davenhall , Andrew Lawrence , Andy Adamson , Peter Shillan , John Taylor , Jim Emerson , Malcolm Stewart , Martin Hill , Mike Irwin , Peredur Williams Subject: WFAU WSA weekly meeting minutes, 22 October 2004 Minutes of WFCAM Science Archive meeting: 22th October 2004 ------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------- Present: NCH, PMW, MAR, JDT, HMG Apologies: JPE, AL, RGM, ETWS, JMS, MCH, GPS DONM: 10am, Friday 29th October, plate library Actions discharged: ------------------- ACTION: PMW to chase up HMG to inquire as to the status of shifting the DVD jukeboxes. Discharged. Actions partly discharged but continuing: ----------------------------------------- ACTION: HMG to oversee the removal of the DVD towers from C1. Underway; see Hardware below. ACTION: NCH to remember to action a team programmer to implement range checking in the low-level ingest codes. ETWS & NCH have been discussing this; likely that the new developer will be assigned this task to start them off. ACTION: JDT to liaise with MCH concerning an end-to-end test of the PAL deployment. Some final registry issues to reslove before external testing is possible ACTION: PMW to apply a little pressure to the premises team to solve the continuing problem of heat overload in C1. Continues ACTION: ALL to review risk register and think of any new internal or external risks that should be documented in the risk register. Defered until top level plan is explicitly defined. PMW tabled the VISTA risk register as an example. ACTION: JPE to design and set up centralised VDFS web pages. Progressing. (there is now a link to it from our WSA Twiki). - continuing; thanks for progressing these. Actions carried forward from 1/10/04 meeting: ----------------------------------------------- ACTION: NCH to chase up Eclipse to enquire as to status of the upgrade orders. - CONTINUES Specific points and new actions: -------------------------------- Project management: NCH noted that the case for archive operator(s) is to be included in the current grant renewal bid; he also reminded himself in noting that this case must also include a bid for operations hardware (which is not covered in the VEGA funding). PMW noted that there is a little confusion over how much money remains in the grant(s) for hardware for archive development. ACTION: PMW to clarify what remains of development hardware money with JPE. Otherwise, assembly of the renewal case is ongoing. NCH added (after the meeting) that AA has asked for a short update for the up-coming UKIRT Board meeting; NCH will send some material asap. Comments and issues arising from CASU fortnightly minutes: Nothing new this week. Networking: Nothing new this week. Hardware: MAR raised the question of hardware performance in the face of all databases being located on one SQL Server. The feeling is that there are facilities for networking SQL Servers and cross-querying, but this needs to be looked into (eg. if SSA, WSA, are all located on one server and getting hit by interactive users and Astrogrid SOAP servers etc. things may start to grind a bit). ACTION: MAR to check out SQL Server networked server functionality for cross-server querying. NCH noted that the hardware design is modular and can be expanded as needed: there is plenty of available IO bandwidth now that we have moved to using hardware RAID controllers, and multi-processor motherboards can be expanded from duals to quads or even 64-bit if needed. Software: NCH noted that there has been no progress on software this week owing to ETWS being on leave, NCH and MAR occupied with other (mainly non-WSA related) things, and our being 1.7 bods short at present. SSA: No further news this week. Astrogrid deployment: Still some issues concerning registry documents to sort out before testing of web (SOAP) services is possible. Miscellaneous: Nothing else this week.