IPP Progress Report for the week 2010.06.07 - 2010.06.11

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Eugene Magnier

Serge Chastel

Heather Flewelling

• minidvodbs
  • debugging/testing of minidvodbs
  • successful merge of 56 minidvodbs
  • sent this 56/merged dvodb to Roy for further testing (it passed)
  • started minidvodb catalogs of ThreePi.nightlyscience data

• further investigations of isp/gpc1 skybrightness
  • couldn't find evidence of isp 'chevrons' or other wierdness during non-bright times, but there are not many images that I think would have them that I could look at.

• ifaps1
  • answering ifaps1 questions as they come up
  • updated ipp build
  • updated ippdb with the build
  • did not restart the download - at 95% full. Planning to deal with this next week.

• helped Serge get started with various IPP things (ippmonitor, ipp, showed him where coffee was...)

Bill Giebink

Roy Henderson

• PSPS
  • BIGINTs slipping through as objID and failing at load: fixed
  • Enlisted Gavin to help with wiki permissions thing. Finally fixed
  • Neatened up and committed fitsConverter code for new DXLayer
  • Problems with interconnectivity within MHPCC, i.e. between IPP and PSPS clusters: Gavin to the rescue again.

• IPP
  • Big changes to support new DXLayer work by Conrad: ditched the idea of 'jobs', now publishing 'batches'
  • Now using 'dist_group' from IPP against PSPS init batch data to set surveyID
  • Improved handling of 'init' batch creation in run script
  • Helped Heather confirm that the merged DVO Dbs looked ok by running them through ippToPsps
  • Looked into, and fixed, problems with exposure times: a) lack of precision, b) was not using mid-exposure time for detections

Paul Price

• Fixed SEGV in normalisation of darks: chips weren't being mosaicked due to recent change.
• Completed rework of ppMops to generate SMF-like format
• Optimised ppStack for stacks of many images: create single target PSF image for all inputs to share
• Coded ppBackground to restore background of an image, given pattern and background model

Bill Sweeney

• Postage stamp server testing.
• Still tracking down problems with update processing uncovered by users postage stamp requests. There are some time consuming problems, but the good news is most requests are working fine. 1.2 Million postage stamps have been generated so far.
• In my two days as processing czar I did a comprehensive analysis of the currently unfinished processing. Results are on this wiki page.
• added some code to pstamptool and disttool to facilitate queuing data for cleanup.

Chris Waters

• Various bugfixes to get simtest to complete properly. Merged into the trunk.
• Ran multiple simtest runs to test the functionality and fix stack associations and warp/stack/diff summary stages.
• Added MOPS detectability server datastore to the postage stamp server database so they can be automatically processed.