IPP Progress Report for the week 2011.02.28 - 2011.03.04

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Eugene Magnier

Serge Chastel

• MOPS tool for processing: specs + development
• MySQL databases optimization. Full report here. Conclusions:
  • Nebulous optimization took 2 days.
  • Nebulous huge tables sizes have decreased of 20% / 25%.
  • GPC1 optimization took about 2 hours
  • GPC1 tables have globally shrunk in size by 27%.
  • It would be highly interesting to optimize in one week?/month? to see if optimization lasts so long.
• Other:
  • apache log of ippdb00 has been moved to /export/ippdb00.0
  • ippdb01 MySQL should be cleaned (1648 tables in total while gpc1 is 96 tables).
  • ippdb02 doesn't work as expected for backup.

Heather Flewelling

Roy Henderson

• PSPS
  • added user instructions to ippToPsps documentation (as I realized, during my recent absence, that no one but me could run it)
  • some time pulling various images, stacks and cmfs for Jim for MD04. Time figuring out filter type of new stack cmfs that were missing headers
  • 2 new passes of stacks from Gene. 1st:
    • extensions names changed from demo file
    • all fluxes invalid in psf extension
    • SkyChip.xsrc and SkyChip.xrad extensions empty
  • 2nd:
    • now populating ApFluxStDev from SkyChip.xrad
    • headers empty
    • work on xfit extension: Sersic, deV and Exp models. Plan to load FITS straight into a Db in order that I can cleanly query the data. Alternative is to write lots of code to do what databases already do.
  • walk-through of nice new DXLayer from Conrad. Loading some test batches to test it works. It does!

• IPP
  • added 'interested servers' list to XML config for roboczar
  • added comments to Config class and XML config

• Other
  • sick on Monday
  • general catch-up after two weeks off
  • lots of mailing-list admin

Bill Sweeney

Chris Waters