IPP Progress Report for the week 2010.08.02 - 2010.08.06

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Eugene Magnier

Serge Chastel

• IPP
  • Two and a half days spent on addtool_find_cam_id SQL query. The query is now executed (almost) instantly whereas it required 30 minutes before.
  • Czar on Thursday and Friday (Thanks to all IPP team members for their support)

• PSPS
  • I wrote some code to access/query the PSPS database through web01. The code was written in Python since we want something independent from existing PSPS software that can be used for testing activities. The next step is FITS reading and then match FITS file contents against database ones. Note: Python is an arbitrary choice but the language that will be used for testing activities has to be defined.

• Cancelled my participation to Belfast workshop because of my passport concerns

Heather Flewelling

• description of cmf/smf columns (with help from Roy and Gene): ​http://svn.pan-starrs.ifa.hawaii.edu/trac/ipp/wiki/cmf_columns
• attended 3 hours of meetings
• IPP-MOPS liason
  • helped the quattro italiano guys get accounts, access ipp, access fits files
  • transferred a GOOD and a BAD diff and warps for them to view
  • investigated and catalogued detections of one of the skycells on the BAD diff.
• ifaps1 liason
  • answered questions
  • had gavin set up mount point to ipp022 for dvo catalog
• czar for 2 days
  • dropped exposures with filter = "not available", as per Bill's email
  • cleaned up some of the faults on ippMonitor. There were many, I was only able to unstick some of them.
  • helped serge on his czaring, also showed serge and roy how to unstick the unrevertables (one of the easier ways - revert faults !=2)
  • queued stack stack diffs for MD08
• got my passport with my correct name.

Roy Henderson

• PSPS
  • Tracked down problem with data given to Jim last week: my fault (one frame loaded multiple times). Fixed.
  • Attempts to load to Maui with new DXLayer, various problems:
    • wrong paths in config
    • Invalid format specification error: investigated
    • wrong permissions on sandbox so could not debug there

• IPP
  • Czar on Monday:
    • registration down, restarted
    • high load on ipp45: killed distribution, seemed to help
    • MD08 stack-stack diff. Tutorial from Heather
    • updates to czar wiki page, specifically, the reverts section
  • czartool:
    • revert status now written to Db from czartool so status on page is accurate at all times
    • added Nebulous class. roboczar now using this to log cluster disk use.
    • creating plot of cluster space over all hosts; added to czartool page
  • ippToPsps:
    • re-wrote exposure-getting SQL to only get exposures that are in the provided DVO Db and to pull out correct relevant smf files
    • added datastore product, DVO db and min and max object IDs to database table for auditing purposes

Bill Sweeney

Chris Waters