From nch@roe.ac.uk Fri Aug 5 13:03:11 2005 Date: Fri, 5 Aug 2005 12:54:23 +0100 (BST) From: Nigel Hambly To: WFCAM Science Archive Team -- Eckhard Sutorius , Mike Read , Nigel Hambly , Nicholas Cross , Bob Mann , Ross Collins Cc: CCs for WSA weekly meeting minutes distribution -- Andrew Lawrence , Andy Adamson , John Taylor , Jim Emerson , Malcolm Stewart , Martin Hill , Mike Irwin , Peredur Williams , Stephen Warren Subject: WFAU WSA weekly meeting minutes, 5th August 2005 Minutes of WFCAM Science Archive meeting: 5th August 2005 ------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------- Present: NCH, PMW, ETWS, JMS, MAR, RSC, NJC Apologies: MCH, JPE, JDT, RGM, AL DONM: 10am, Friday 12th August 2005, plate library Actions discharged: ------------------- ACTION: NCH, MAR, ETWS & RSC to meet on Monday PM to review the state of readiness for release of non-survey products Discharged; NCH suggested we await transfer to the end of the last WFCAM observing block before attempting any non-survey releases. Actions partly discharged but continuing: ----------------------------------------- ACTION: PMW to initiate removal of old hardware from C1 by communicating with all concerned parties (JNTD, HMG, RL, ...) Movements are continuing; HMG has requested more space be made before shifting in the kit. PMW has suggested we hold off major removals until the dusty building works outside C1 have been completed. Eclipse have been warned of the need to shift the old RAID server. - continues. ACTION: MAR to liaise with MCH/JDT/ITsupport concerning shifting of the grendels out of C1. - continues; Actions carried forward from 15/07/05 meeting: ---------------------------------------------- ACTION: NCH to investigate the usefulness of a NAS solution for medium term archive mass storage. Continues ACTION: JDT and MAR to continue sorting out AG access option functionality for saving WSA results to "MySpace". Continues Specific points and new actions: -------------------------------- Project management: NCH noted that 2 operator candidates have been interviewed so far (yesterday); 3 more will be done next Wednesday. PMW presented the revised Q3 plan and progress for July was filled in at the meeting for reporting at the next VDMT. On the subject of meetings, the next VDMT telecon is on Thurs 11th at 2pm; JMS reminded the team that the most important action was to produce a draft functionality document to be presented to the VDUC meeting (on the 6th Sept). PMW is to draft this in advance of next week's VDMT. The UKIDSS Science Verification meeting is definitely being held in Edinburgh on the 18th; NCH and MAR will attend from the archive team; NCH also invited the rest of the team to look in if they want for some or all of the meeting. WFCAM update: See the stop press pages linked from the TWiki for latest news. Comments and issues arising from CASU fortnightly minutes: The team noted the minutes of the meeting of 26 July. There were no comments. Networking: Transfer of pipeline processed data is complete to May 31st, including SV2 data. Work on SV2 ingest continues. MAR noted that when we discover any problems with images and/or catalogues, we should check the nightly README files in processed subdirectories that detail known problems, before hassling CASU. Hardware: All hardware still functioning normally. Software: NCH reported testing and debugging of merged source catalogue seaming; this has been completed so seaming can be switched on for SV2 release. Otherwise, much investigations into SV data have been carried out in advance of the SV meeting. MAR reported several interface tweaks in response to user requests, and MAR and RSC are looking into integrating the CASU mosaicing tool into the interface to enable on-the-fly mosaicing driven by user requests. ETWS has done much work on transfer/ingest of SV2 and all the usual refactoring. NJC reported further photoemtric calibration schema and coding work. ACTION: NCH & NJC to meet offline to review the state of the global photometric recalibration procedure. Data Release: Work on SV2 release continues. SSA: Nothing new this week Astrogrid deployment: Nothing new this week. Miscellaneous: MAR raised the issue of ADASS'05 (October 2-5, San Lorenzo de El Escorial, Spain). The team discussed possible attendance: ACTION: MAR, NJC, RSC to think about attending ADASS. Note that the abstract deadline has passed, but late abstracts for posters may be accepted (depending on space).