== IPP Progress Report for the week 2010.02.01 - 2010.02.05 == 
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=== Eugene Magnier ===

=== Heather Flewelling === 

=== Bill Giebink ===

=== Roy Henderson ===

 * Numerous meetings with Conrad and Jim regarding data integrity, speed, error handling etc
 * Now that I'm able to churn out data in bulk, speed is seen as a real issue (up to 10 minutes to create FITS detections from a 'busy' smf source) so...
 * Re-wrote FITS I/O stuff to use cfitsio directly, rather than psLib. Now more than twice as fast: remaining bottleneck is access to DVO db
 * Worked with Conrad on his 'dxlayer' including:
  * potential designs for error-handling
  * transferring some tasks to ippToPsps code so that dxlayer can remain ignorant of db schema (will save on maintenance when there are schema changes)
  * wrote fast code to convert FITS extensions to csv files using the low-level 'bulk copy' cfitsio functions (under 10secs for 70Mb FITS, which take minutes to write)

=== Paul Price ===

=== Bill Sweeney ===

=== Chris Waters ===

 * Identified that fringe needs to be applied after masking to ensure the correct scaling is found.
 * Expanded nightly stacking code to handle automation of science for an entire night.  This has not been fully checked and debugged.
 * Detrend cleanup needed to be rewritten, and detrend processed and residual image cleanup is progressing.
 * Burntool. Upgraded to new version of the code and confirmed that it resolved the issues found in the old version.
 * Checked that difference image signal to noise distributions were consistent with Gaussian distributions.
 * Began study of diffraction spike lengths, in an attempt to expand the masking to cover them completely.