IPP Progress Report for the week YYYY.MM.DD - YYYY.MM.DD

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Eugene Magnier

Serge Chastel

• Tuesday off
• Documentation of the "Who is the cluster?" software.
• "Who is the cluster?" given to MOPS/Denver.

Heather Flewelling

• czar for 2 days (including the day of mhpcc power outage)
• sas-subset : rsync://ipp0012.ifa.hawaii.edu/sas-subset contains all raw files all filters for skycell.1406.028 (and likely other skycells as well)
• sas9
  • wait for gene for dvo changes
  • built dvo for smfs (SAS_v8)
  • wait for bill/gene for psphotstack
• sas-isp
  • attempts at processing isp-sas stuff is located here: ​http://svn.pan-starrs.ifa.hawaii.edu/trac/ipp/wiki/IspSasProcessing
• lots of sciency stuff with JT (not involving sas! )

Mark Huber

Bill Sweeney

• Tested Gene's improvements to psphotStack to better model massively saturated stars. The number of false detections is greatly reduced around such objects.
• Ran staticsky and skycalibration analysis for SAS_v9 which is the new psphotStack running on the SAS_v8 pixels. Made a configuration error so had to run this twice.
• Started working on a design for software to manage "release versions" for IPP data. This is being done to support several requirements.
  • users need updated calibration information in IPP data. For example zero points for a stack or exposure. These change with re-calibrations, but we have no method for tracking this information and so we can't update the headers of fits files which are requested by users through the postage stamp server
  • currently there is no way to track which pixels the IPP used for to measure a given detection in the PSPS data base.
  • we need to distinguish "released" data from test runs in the IPP data base.
• Iterated with Conrad on the postage stamp user interface project.
• Lot's of assistant czar work helping to manage the fallout from the MHPCC cluster power outage and various other strange problems.

Chris Waters