From nch@roe.ac.uk Sun Nov 28 21:34:07 2004 Date: Fri, 26 Nov 2004 15:15:39 +0000 (GMT) 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: 26th November 2004 Minutes of WFCAM Science Archive meeting: 26th November 2004 ------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------- Present: NCH, PMW, JDT, JMS, AL, ETWS, GPS, MAR Apologies: JPE, RGM, MCH, HMG DONM: 10am, Friday 3rd December, plate library Actions discharged: ------------------- ACTION: PMW to clarify what remains of development hardware money with JPE. Discharged: it seems there is probably of order 30K still available. Actions partly discharged but continuing: ----------------------------------------- ACTION: MAR to check out SQL Server networked server functionality for cross-server querying. Continues; NCH suggested we should do some experiments with the linked SQL Servers ahmose & amenhotep once the dust has settled on their reorganisation over the next couple of weeks. 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. Continues; see Astrogrid Deployment below. ACTION: PMW to apply a little pressure to the premises team to solve the continuing problem of heat overload in C1. Continues; a quote has been received by Premises for an extra A/C unit. No word as yet on when the purchase/installation may happen... 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 29/10/04 meeting: ---------------------------------------------- None this week. Specific points and new actions: -------------------------------- Project management: PMW and JMS reported back from the 5/11/04 VDMT meeting; there were no new issues affecting the WFAU WSA team. NCH noted that the UK Vista URD has now been officially signed, sealed and delivered, and JPE has put the PDF on the VDFS web pages at www-star.qmw.ac.uk/~jpe/vdfs/requirements/vdfs_uk-vista-user-req-doc_v1.pdf Comments and issues arising from CASU fortnightly minutes: The meeting noted the minutes of the CASU meeting of 3/11/2004; there were no comments. NCH suggested we should request that some real WFCAM data be made available from CASU to test out the CASU/WFAU dataflow system interface. ACTION: ETWS to liaise with MJI and JRL to test out the CASU/WFAU VDFS interface. Networking: NCH noted that DR3 has been available for a little while now, and that it might be a good idea to get the catalogue products ingested into the WSA well in advance of the deluge of WFCAM data hitting us next year. JNTD asked about availability of spectral data products as well. ACTION: NCH to contact Jan at JHU to enquire as to the possibility of getting DR3 catalogues/spectra directly (as we did for DR2 cats). Hardware: Bad news: old-style system ahmose has thrown more wobblies this week (NCH managed to fix it after the meeting, but for how long it stays up is anybody's guess...). Good news: the new-style catalogue server is nearly ready to be switched on as the new SSA/WSA server. NCH needs to do some final tweaks and some backups before switching the system over as the live public server; will then liaise with Eclipse over the reconfiguration and upgrade of ahmose as the new catalogue load-server. Hence, the end to all the disk problems is in sight... a new rackmount cabinet has been set up and the pixel file server djoser is now installed; all other reconfig components are awaiting installation when NCH gives the go-ahead to Eclipse. NCH noted that the C1 temperature rose dramatically a couple of weeks ago and required manual defrosting of the A/C units. There is as yet no word on installation of more air conditioning from the premises section. Software: MAR reported: "Progressed some of the WSA web pages/forms. Refactored some of the servlet code/classes to further compartmentalize (e.g. coord parsing and query tracking/logging)." ETWS reported: "I've been working on CUs 5, 13, and 14, writing the basic outline which now needs to be filled with the CASU scripts. Also I've worked on the GUI and fixed some lose ends and bugs and added more functionality." NCH has been on hols for the last two weeks, and preparing the WFAU RG renewal in the week before that; hence no other progress to report on WSA software. SSA: No news other than archive unavailability for a few days this week because of the same old problem. Astrogrid deployment: SOAP services within PAL are now running; NCH has informed the e-Star folks of their availability to do some external tests. JNTD suggested some further workflow tests might be a good idea to check out the service functionality. Miscellaneous: AL enquired as to the status of user registration for the WSA, especially UKIDSS. NCH reminded everyone that the ball was in AA's court to bring the issue and some suggested way forward to the attention of the UKIRT Board at their November meeting. ACTION: AL to email AA to enquire as to status of deliberations on user registration for the WSA. MAR and ETWS noted that they will be attending the NeSC Datamining workshop next week; NCH and MAR will additionally be attending the Astrogrid consortium/demo meeting in December (also at NeSC). Finally, the team thanked JNTD for bringing biscuits.