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

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Eugene Magnier

Serge Chastel

• Minor improvements to the databases backup scripts
• ipp001 databases backup directory cleaning
• Czar on Wed and Thu
• Ganglia hack
• Nebulous monitoring:
  • Each mhpcc storage node has now its own local database (a mysql server is running on each node). ippc11 now holds only a "summary" on those nodes.

Heather Flewelling

• worked on jt/my science
• ipptopsps improvements
  • to get more things into object table in psps, we should really be modifying the dvo schema: ​http://svn.pan-starrs.ifa.hawaii.edu/trac/ipp/wiki/DvoSchemaChangeProposal

Mark Huber

• czar monday+tuesday
• ppStack tests continue, mostly finished debugging simtests and plots. when time, notes+plots to be added to the ongoing wiki ​http://svn.pan-starrs.ifa.hawaii.edu/trac/ipp/wiki/ppStack_testing_201111#TargetPSFforConvolvedStacks
• MD10.refstack.20120705 selected chip-warp "test" reprocessing with new tag (ipp-20120626) and reftest samples made on stsci nodes after debugging setup. tighter input FWHM constraints from ppStack tests have helped reign in the convolved stack target PSFs but have highlighted a known problem of odd convolution that haven't had the chance to properly trace out in the ppStack tests. stalled until finished tracing out.
• MD staticsky finished for all fields since fault is intermittent, revert solution for now... skycal problem found, needs to be tuned more appropriately for at least MD.refstack NRAW INST.MAG.RAW in own reduction config group.

Bill Sweeney

• Returned from long leave
• Investigated reports of very large numbers of false psphot detections around very saturated stars. Determined that the problem is triggered by the subtraction of models that do not match the sources well from the image before pass 2 source detection. The effect is lessened somewhat with the recipe that the staticsky analysis uses, but more work needs to be done.
• Arranged for some cleaned up sts warps to be regenerated and distributed for MPG.
• Worked with Gene to get debug build of IPP working on my Ubuntu desktop.

Chris Waters

• Finished noisemap/boosting tests, and constructed final boosted noisemap.
• Launched new SAS processing (label SAS_v7).
• Launched new LAP processing (label LAP.ThreePi.20120706).
• Out one day due to illness, one day due to 4th of July.