IPP Progress Report for the week 2010.06.28 - 2010.07.02

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Eugene Magnier

Serge Chastel

• Adapted ippMonitor framework for plotting/image display
  • Details can be seen at the end of ippMonitor/def/README
  • Need to fix minor bug: 'unlink(tmp files) deletes data and image files before display in php script' => unlink tmp files removed from php scripts => Dirty temporary solution: clean from 'Admin and debug' menu
  • Query columns names from some db tables
• Roy's shadow for czar activities

Heather Flewelling

Roy Henderson

• PSPS/IPP
  • attempts to load batches on sandbox with new DXLayer with Conrad. Various (still unresolved) issues...
  • some schema changes
  • now saving ippToPsps metadata in XML format (had been plain-text)
  • removed dependence on smf column numbers to protect against future smf format changes
  • now logging 'total detections' and storing in ippToPsps Db for auditing/debugging
  • work on undefined detection fields:
    • numPhotoRef in ImageMeta: setting to same as numAstroRef, which is true for now at least
    • numPhotoRef in FrameMeta: setting to sum of numPhotoRef over all chips
    • detectorID: changed to string in PSPS schema, using 'DETECTOR' from IPP smf

• IPP
  • Czar on Friday:
    • Outlined Czar duties to Serge
    • added 'revert' buttons to Czartool

Paul Price

• Processing Czar
  • Reverting failures due to filesystem glitches
  • Fixed pmSourceMatch (wasn't incrementing size for disjoint regions) and backported to fix Gene's MD04 stacks
  • ipp012 woes
• Background restoration pipeline
  • Merged branch into trunk
  • Ran single M31 image to work out bugs
• Added concept CHIP.TEMPERATURE to be set to the Camera's new-and-improved temperature header keyword
• Stacks:
  • Discovered that STS stack photometry has more scatter than expected or desired
  • PSF photometry has more scatter than aperture, apparently because the PSF model isn't good
  • Found astrometric differences about 1 pix (0.2 arcsec) p-p in the warps
  • Unconvolved photometry seems to be better than convolved

Bill Sweeney

• vacation 2 days
• 2 days as processing czar
• helped team queue data for cleanup and monitored it's progress.
• debugged update failures
  • diff updates were occasionally failing. Paul suggested some changes to inputs in this mode that fixed the problem
  • For some very large requests cleanup is getting queued between the time that a postage stamp job is queued. This causes the jobs to fail
  • updates stall if the previous magicDSRun cleanup did not succeed.

Chris Waters