IPP Progress Report for the week 2011.01.03 - 2011.01.07

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Eugene Magnier

Serge Chastel

• back on Monday instead of Thursday;
• czar on Thursday and Friday for IPP;
• czar all week for MOPS;
• trying to install mysql-5.1 on ippc00;
• attempting to write down a synthesis about IPP current implementation

Heather Flewelling

• Tested a set of 3Pi G band exposures on 3 different tag/trunks: ipp-20100701, trunk (default), trunk with new masks and darks. Magic numbers are much better for the oldest trunk tested (ipp-20100701). See ​http://svn.pan-starrs.ifa.hawaii.edu/trac/ipp/wiki/magictest201101 for more details

• Investigated y band fringe for Ken. We do not appear to be correcting the fringe correctly for a small percent of y band images. See ​http://svn.pan-starrs.ifa.hawaii.edu/trac/ipp/wiki/FringeInvestigations2011 for more details. Also, it appears that z band has some fringing, which we do not correct for, but I am still looking into this.

• various amounts of kicking burntool/registration to make it continue.

• liason - emailed Matt Holman about skyprobe

• Created my 'wishlist' for things I would like for grand reprocessing (this has items from others, as well), see: ​http://svn.pan-starrs.ifa.hawaii.edu/trac/ipp/wiki/GrandReprocessingWishlist

Roy Henderson

• PSPS
  • Loading
    • 3PI loading hampered, first by samba share issues, then by datastore issue (files on wrong machine after Db change). rsync'd to fix it
    • DXLayer kept stopping. Lots of restarting from home over the weekend
  • PSVO
    • implemented 'summary' page, showing totals per survey and filter, with buttons to plot any subset. More can be added
    • added functionality to change PSPS user
    • implement two inner classes in PSPSCommunicator to handle quick and slow jobs
    • can run and cancel slow jobs: changes to TableModel to load VOTable format exported from DRL
    • ran into weird things when querying detections using fGetNearbyObjEq() function. Reported to Graypan
    • added convenience option to grab detections for a given region using above function
    • lots of cosmetic changes

• Sick on Friday

Bill Sweeney

• spent lots of time looking for disk space on the cluster. Found significant portion from October - November that was missed by automatic cleanup
• Looked into problem reported by a postage stamp user who asserted that requests for stamps from a reported detection returned no overlap. It turned out to be user error. The coordinates were outside the exposure.
• Two days as acting processing czar.
• Investigated by stack-stack diffs weren't getting queued. Once we cleared out the backlog MD03 still wasn't getting queued. The problem was an incorrect template entry in the survey book.
• Lost several hours over two days due to dental work.
• Investigated and fixed some problems with registration.
• Investigated errors in distribution clean up.
• Fixed some problems on the data store caused by incomplete clean up.
• recovered from vacation email back log.
• started thinking about generating "unmagicked" postage stamps from destreaked images by saving the excised pixels and putting them back for authorized users.

Chris Waters