IPP Progress Report for the week 2011.06.27 - 2011.07.01

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Eugene Magnier

Serge Chastel

• IPP czar on Friday
• Mainly busy with the gpc1 database replication issues
• Talked with Conrad about PSPS Test Plan
• Created database for Haydn/Paul Sydney to move stare data and free 30TB on Maui cluster
• Finished? lapMonitor for Chris
• Updated ippMonitor for Heather and Bill

Heather Flewelling

Roy Henderson

• Czar Monday and Tuesday, but credit to Bill for doing most of the work

• ippToPsps: loading of new LAP detections began, after the following work:
  • issues with likelihoods: no erfc() function in MySQL, so using a Java method and updating tables with a cursor, which is the fastest way.
  • newly populated detection fields, thanks to pointers from Chris:
    • analysis version in detection FrameMeta
    • bias and biasScat in detection ImageMeta
    • kronFlux and kronFluxErr in Detection table
    • psf, extended and cosmic ray likelihoods in Detection (see above)
  • added more values to config file for better control or program, including a 'force' option and 'test' mode
  • bug in FITS header reading code: if one header failed to read, then all subsequent headers also failed: fixed
  • new column for ippToPsps database: stage_id, which is either a cam_id (for detections) or a stack_id (for stacks)
  • worked on new query, with help from Heather, to improve my extraction of stack cmf path names from GPC1
  • updated more documentation

• Quite a lot of user support:
  • some emails back and forth with Dave Clark regarding the usage of the postage stamp server
  • advice to Kent Wood and his team on how they can store data locally prior to our deletion of 3PI PSPS database. This led to...
  • ...a fair bit of work on queryDRLClient script to enable long queries to be run and the results retrieved and saved locally

• Other stuff
  • planning and discussion for the ingest of new data earlier in the week
  • some more back-and-forth regarding the wiki migration: no have access to new machine, Raja is looking into upgrading old wiki to newest version

Bill Sweeney

Chris Waters