== IPP Progress Report for the week 2009.09.06 - 2009.09.12 == 
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(Up to [wiki:IPP_Progress_Reports IPP Progress Reports])

=== Eugene Magnier ===



=== Heather Flewelling === 

* copied my home files from 004backup to either 053home or to a good place for data
* restarted replication pantasks on ipp user
* investigated MD09.20090904 processing from last week
* burntooled MD09 and MD10 dates
* found instances where burntool burns files out of order
* while burntooling (and with lots of NFS glitches) pushed the load on 041 to 130. YIKES.
* found corrupted raw image file
 * copied both copies (the corrupted and the uncorrupted) to a safe place, neb-culled the corrupted file, neb-replicated the good file
* processed MD09 through to warp stage
* started MD09 stacking
* added processing status to wiki

=== Bill Giebink ===

This week I finished locating and making notes on code causing seg
faults and aborts from the psLib tap tests. I started fixing tests and
hopefully my work will still be there when ipp000 comes back up.

I also spent some time looking for some cards for Jim Heasley at
MHPCC, but didn't find what he wanted. And I started working with
Heather to script the characterization of the reduction process.

=== Paul Price ===

* Detection efficiency: branches/pap
 * Measure magnitude bias from fake sources
 * Discovered bug in statistics on fake source magnitudes:
psphotFitLinear and psphotMagnitudes sort the source list)
 * Fixed radius of fake sources (pmReadoutFake)
 * I/O through FITS table in CMF file (chipname.deteff)
 * Optimised through convolving only the pixels of interest
 * Contributes 1.4 sec of 66 sec psphot run time (on 6k square warp,
unthreaded, optimised on ipp022)
 * Ready to merge into trunk
* MOPS support
 * Compiled Magic for Jan Kleyna to test comets
 * Magic does not compile with recent gcc (4.3.2 doesn't work; 4.1.2
does); mentioned this to Paul Sydney previously, but no response yet
* Processing
 * Discovered that MD09.20090904 was done without PATTERN turned on
* Stack/Diff convolutions
 * Assisting Draper/Metcalfe (stack) and MWV/Huber (diff)
investigations
 * Wrote up stamp selection algorithm for ps-ipp-users
 * Fixed ppStack so that extended sources can't be used as stamps for
PSF matching

=== Bill Sweeney ===

Bill spent the week preparing the postage stamp server for general availability.

* created a web page to allow users to upload a postage stamp request table for testing
* modified the request form page to use a session to make it more user friendly
* added user authentication to the pstamp site
* fixed various bugs uncovered in testing
* wrote some wiki pages for describing how to create requests files
* lots of testing
* started updating instructions on installing the ipp data store software

=== Chris Waters ===

* tracked down spurious supernova transients for Armin Rest, and determined that they were not burntool related.
* merged my svn branch to the trunk, adding the cleanup, addstar stage, and burntool tools.
* fixed all known bugs arising from that merge.
* worked with John Tonry on implementing different noise thresholds for burntool. Have not determined that the current value of 20 isn't already good enough.
* attempted to implement a burntool_state variable in the register stage.
* gave a talk.