IPP Progress Report for the week 2011.09.19 - 2011.09.23

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Eugene Magnier

Serge Chastel

• Sat up a dedicated condor user ('ippdor') on the MHPCC cluster. Thanks Cindy
• Installed condor on Maui cluster. Wrote a deployment script. Thanks Larry
• Ran isp chip stage using condor: able to process a full night (1527 exposures) in 7 to 30 exposures depending on the cluster load). Thanks Heather
• Started implementation of the IPP stack processing: ran into various concerns (ppImage crashes at the end ("pipe has died" message); databases updates made at different levels in the processing chain; ...). Thanks Heather again
• Fixed MySql replication. Thanks Roy 8op

Heather Flewelling

• czar 2 days
• helped roy with LAPdvodb, restarted LAPdvo, investigated LAPdvo.
• helped serge with condor
• investigated dravg concerns with missing MD skycells - this is caused by using ancient templates, this should go away when we make (and use) the newer refstacks.

Roy Henderson

• sick 1.5 days, worked from home 1.5 days

• czar Monday and a bit of Tuesday:
  • unstuck registration on Tuesday
  • worked on scaling issue in czartool rate plot

• ippToPsps:
  • monitored loading of LAP
  • metrics program now querying gpc1 to get total exposures processed under the given label (good to know what's coming)

• PSVO:
  • now forcing user to choose a catalog for each plug-in query
  • now getting list of available catalogs via web-service
  • new menu options for news and help that open pages in default browser

• documentation:
  • updated PSPS news page with increasingly complex LAP schedule
  • updated PSVO user documentation

• other:
  • investigated rogue frame in SA1 with Sue
  • worked with heather on LAP/DVO stuff, specifically, confusion over what's processed/what's in DVO
  • mailing list stuff

Mark Huber

Bill Sweeney

Chris Waters