From nch@roe.ac.uk Fri Aug 12 12:15:39 2005 Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2005 12:06:30 +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 project meeting: 12 August 2005 Minutes of WFCAM Science Archive meeting: 12th August 2005 ------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------- Present: NCH, PMW, ETWS, RGM, MAR, RSC, NJC Apologies: MCH, JPE, JDT, JMS, AL DONM: 10am, Friday 19th August 2005, plate library Actions discharged: ------------------- ACTION: MAR to liaise with MCH/JDT/ITsupport concerning shifting of the grendels out of C1. Discharged; grendel nodes to stay put for the time being. ACTION: NCH & NJC to meet offline to review the state of the global photometric recalibration procedure. Discharged; implementation and testing continue. ACTION: MAR, NJC, RSC to think about attending ADASS. Disharged; RSC (and possibly MAR) to attend this year. Actions partly discharged but continuing: ----------------------------------------- ACTION: PMW to initiate removal of old hardware from C1 by communicating with all concerned parties (JNTD, HMG, RL, ...) Building works will finish with concrete screeding of the floor outside C1 on 20/21st Aug; major equipment movements to be instigated once the goo is dry. - continues. Actions carried forward from 05/08/05 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; RGM noted that Astrogrid installations on new hardware will commence next week, and then implementation and testing of this interface option can take place. Specific points and new actions: -------------------------------- Project management: NCH noted some fall-out from yesterday's VDMT monthly argument. The main area of debate was the VDUC meeting on the 6th September. Documentation required is a revised plan/functional spec relating to the UK VISTA User Requirements Doc, and a list of documents to be presented for a review. PMW and NCH have the situation under (reasonable) control. The great news this week is that an offer has been made, and accepted, for the archive operator post. We anticipate the new bod being in post on Tues 13th September. Finally, numbers for next week's UKIDSS Science Verification meeting are currently standing at 21; the Management meeting room has been booked so things should be nice and cosy. ACTION: PMW to inform catering that a mighty host (up to 30 folks) will descend on the canteen at 12:30pm next Thursday. ACTION: NCH to book a digital projector for the day (Thurs 18th) ACTION: NCH to notify site staff of the influx of hungry science verifiers for lunch at 12:30pm next Thurs. WFCAM update: See the stop press pages linked from the TWiki for latest news. Comments and issues arising from CASU fortnightly minutes: No new minutes as of 12/08/2005. Networking: NCH noted the requirements for retransfer of reprocessed data from CASU. MAR asked about the status of some standard catalogue parameters, and suggested now might be a good time to inquire as to the situation. ACTION: NCH to contact MJI to ask about error-bit flags and parent/child deblending info, in the CASU standard catalogue parameters. Hardware: All hardware still functioning normally. Software: MAR reported: "This week I've been working on mosaicing and the inteface to do joint queries between the UKIDSS data and other surveys held in the archive (plus the usual minor interface tweaks)." ETWS has rererererefactored the ingest codes, and is working with RSC on this. RSC has completely reviewed the C++ codes for compatibility with more up-to-date compilers (with more stringent source checking) and the WSA/src/wfcamsrc C++ ingest codes now compile under all compiler versions. RSC is now starting to look at the third-party source association "plane-sweep" codes. NJC has started to implement and test photometric recalibration codes using the available data in SV1. Data Release: Work on SV2 release continues, but NCH suggested that no further releases should be done before we have had a chance to discuss reprocessing issues with CASU at next week's SV meeting. SSA: Nothing new this week Astrogrid deployment: Nothing new this week. Miscellaneous: NJC noted his login problems this week on the Windows load-server, and the team noted the need for greater access to the DB machines by the developers. ACTION: NCH liase with JNTD to sort out Windows accounts, file share access and an increased remote connection limit on W2K3 DB servers. RSC (and possibly MAR) noted their intention to go to ADASS this year. NCH asked about plans for abstract/posters. ACTION: RSC to submit a poster abstract for ADASS, on the WSA. ACTION: MAR & RSC to assemble an advertisement-feature poster concerning the WSA for ADASS. MAR additionally suggested that it might be a good idea to have a WSA User's Forum, independent of any of the existing web pages and TWikis, to provide help for users. RGM suggested that this might be a task for the new IT support bod within the VO/WF teams, but PMW pointed out the rather long lead-time on recruitment. The team agreed that we should think a bit more about this, and in the meantime rely on the Q&A web pages and the existing TWiki topics on the AG TWiki.