IPP Progress Report for the week 2011.01.31 - 2011.02.04

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Eugene Magnier

Serge Chastel

Heather Flewelling

• mops - ran a subset of PI data with gene's branch (and published it). Made plots of the number of sources found in diff for the old processed and the gene-branch.
• magictest - ran from start to magic a selection of images with gene-branch and the new dark and static mask. The static mask needs a few tweaks, but otherwise it looks good. See ​http://svn.pan-starrs.ifa.hawaii.edu/trac/ipp/wiki/MagicTest20101228 for more information.
• ippMonitor - now has pages for minidvobs and addstar
• addstar/dvodb - we are now up to date on minidvodbs (and they are merged). Currently building new minidvodbs but the merging is off while Gene adds 2MASS to the big dvodb.
• czar on Friday - nothing too exciting to report.

Roy Henderson

• PSPS
  • meeting and discussion with Daniel regarding the PSVO/MOPS development
  • ippToPsps
    • stacks: now populating R1->R10 flux values in StackApFlx table
    • more wrapper code to hide awfulness of cfitsio
    • created a sort-of unit test for detection batches, to help validate data after code changes
  • PSVO
    • improved query panel: now a large text area with a 'listener' so that syntax highlighting can be used and, perhaps later, errors flagged while typing
    • Db drivers now built into jar file and on CLASSPATH
    • ability to choose the SAMP client where you wish to send data, rather than just 'all'

• IPP
  • Czar Monday and Tuesday

• Other
  • some time-consuming mailing list admin, manually removing and adding numerous MPG people
  • hospital appointment all Wednesday afternoon
  • wrote a PS1SC blog article about the IPP

Bill Sweeney

• Most of this week was spent reworking the distribution system to store distribution bundle files and logs in nebulous. Implemented and tested the changes thoroughly. This should reduce problems that we have had from time to time where nodes get data written to them when they are over the 98% full.
• Searched for, found, and cleaned up more data. Changed retention times to deal with space crunch.
• Changed the postage stamp server status page to be generated periodically by the server rather than in response to each user's web request. Added a lot more information about requests and jobs that are in progress or that have finished in the last 24 hours. It shows that the update fault problems are not as bad as I had feared.
• Investigated why we get so many faults during in update processing. Decided that we need to enhanced the postage stamp dependency check program to tell stop the update process if a component faults repeatedly (it already does give up on the postage stamp request).
• Continued to queue and monitor the processing and distribution of STS data from September and October 2010. We have a couple more nights left to go. (These data were delayed due to the lack of an i band template stack.)
• Discovered that destreak cleanup is deleting the censored pixel images! This prevented MOPS from getting stamps from muggle images. Fixed that.
• Reviewed postage stamp dependency checking. Started optimizing that script. Found a bug that prevented some diff updates from being queued.

Chris Waters