== IPP Progress Report for the week 2009.11.02 - 2009.11.06 == 
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(Up to [wiki:IPP_Progress_Reports IPP Progress Reports])

=== Eugene Magnier ===

=== Heather Flewelling === 

=== Bill Giebink ===
 * Jury duty Monday
 * Spent a small amount of time on realtest.
 * Did further study and preparation for starting DB replication.
 * Got Josh's arclog.pl script running to collect Areca RAID card logs from nodes.
 * Started parsing of logs to isolate read errors.
 * RMA'd two boxes of WD drives.
 * Started looking into buildtest and psLib TAP test failures.

=== Paul Price ===

 * Dual convolution (branches/pap)
  * Merged into trunk (rr25999,26000)
  * Ran on 4 diffs from ThreePi_SouthernRegion with DUAL=T,
 SPATIAL.ORDER=0.  Some strange results for a small subset of skycells;
 otherwise good.
  * Some bad subtractions, clearly identifiable with chi^2^ > 100!  One
 has 25453.6!  Cannot fix merely by increasing ITER.
  * Softening errors produces nice behaviour --- fixed!
  * Some sources show up in the subtraction that should be masked ---
 fixed.
  * Happy with dual convolution again, pending testing on a few
 exposures.
 * Stacking (branches/pap): investigating rejection behaviour
  * Completed rework of combinePixels
  * On each rejection pass, throw out only the most variant pixel;
 change iterations parameter to iterations per input.
  * Happy with behaviour of stacking (r26011):
   * 4 inputs from stack_id = 14006 (the Draper stack)
   * stack_id = 25532 (full Draper stack from more recent warps)
  * Would benefit from threading the creation of the fake images
 * Moved TEMP.DIR from ppStack recipe to site configuration; updated
 production version

=== Bill Sweeney ===

 * Modified the distribution tasks to spread the bundles over multiple hosts to improve
 performance.
 * Split up distribution bundle processing script into two pieces so that it can be used by
 the postage stamp server for 'get_image' requests.
 * Worked with Gene analyzing faults and fixing problems uncovered in the throughput tests.
 (some of these problems were introduced by the previous two tasks. Sorry..
 * Fixed a couple of postage stamp bugs reported by Ken Smith.
 * Spent some time doing research into techonologies for creating the real web interface
 to the postage stamp server
 * Ran simtest and fixed some bugs found there.
 * Looked at the results of the backround restore program. Found out that compression is not
 appropriate for the background model file. Turned it off in the file rules.
 * Marked trac tickets assigned to bill that have been fixed to fixed.

=== Chris Waters ===