From pmw@roe.ac.uk Fri Oct 14 20:52:49 2005
Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2005 12:33:26 +0100
From: Peredur Williams <pmw@roe.ac.uk>
To: Nigel Hambly <nch@roe.ac.uk>, Eckhard Sutorius <etws@roe.ac.uk>,
     Johann Bryant <jb@roe.ac.uk>, Mike Read <mar@roe.ac.uk>,
     Nicholas Cross <njc@roe.ac.uk>, Bob Mann <rgm@roe.ac.uk>,
     Ross Collins <rsc@roe.ac.uk>
Cc: Andrew Lawrence <al@roe.ac.uk>, Andy Adamson <a.adamson@jach.hawaii.edu>,
     John Taylor <jdt@roe.ac.uk>, Jim Emerson <j.p.emerson@qmul.ac.uk>,
     Malcolm Stewart <jms@roe.ac.uk>, Martin Hill <mch@roe.ac.uk>,
     Mike Irwin <mike@ast.cam.ac.uk>, Peredur Williams <pmw@roe.ac.uk>,
     Stephen Warren <s.j.warren@ic.ac.uk>
Subject: WFAU WSA weekly project meeting: 14 October 2005

Minutes of WFCAM Science Archive meeting: 14th October 2005
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Present:       MAR, RSC, JB, PMW
Apologies:     MCH, RGM, JPE, AL, JDT, NCH, ETWS, JMS, NJC

DONM: 10am, Friday 21st October 2005, plate library; PMW in the chair


Actions discharged:
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ACTION: ETWS to make a specimen fits file available 
 - DONE 


Actions partly discharged but continuing:
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None this week.


Actions carried forward from 28/09/05 meeting:
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ACTION: NCH to investigate the usefulness of a NAS solution for medium
        term archive mass storage.
 - CONTINUES


Specific points and new actions:
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WFCAM update:

See the stop press pages linked from the TWiki for latest news. 
NCH is currently observing. 


Networking and Archive operation:

ETWS reported (by e-mail) that he'd initiated the download of the 
re-processed files from CASU, including the re-processed pixel data. 
JB reported that the download had not worked completely and that he 
was checking and relocating the files before attempting ingestation. 


Hardware:

Sneferu had gone down over the weekend, needing re-booting on Monday, 
but the RAID system was OK. JB reported that one of the drives on djoser

had given trouble and the filesystem rebuilt OK. 

The new jbod (2.2TB) for amenhotep was ready for delivery and
installation 
but, as this is the on-line system, installation would be deferred until

NCH and JNTD were available to minimise downtime of the public server.


Software:

MAR has continued with tool provide catalogue data matching
user-uploaded 
co-ordinate lists (brought forward following science verifiers
requests); 
now very nearly complete.

RSC has investigated making CU2 - jpeg image production creation -
faster 
and was able to get a 50% speed-up but other than that the code is
efficient, 
it just has a lot of work to do. Also looked into integrating wfcamsrc
schema 
driven features into the new source pairing code.


Data Release:

Pending; awaiting reprocessing, retransfer & reingest of SV1 & 2 data.


Astrogrid deployment:

Nothing new this week.


Miscellaneous:

RSC reported on ADASS meeting; he and JDT would put a report on the
Twiki. 

Meeting on Wednesday 19th with UKLight, ETWS and PMW from WFAU
attending.


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