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Key Documents

• Off-line subsystem: Designs, Plans, ICDs, Meeting
• DesignReviews

Meetings

• Weekly Meetings
• Monthly Reports
• Quarterly Reports

Group

• Calendars
  • CASA
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• MU, Canada: ChristineWilson
• DRAO, Canada: RaymondRusk
• U of Calgary, Canada: ShannonJaeger
• ATC, UK: (JohnLightfoot)
• IRAM, France: RobertLucas, (DominqueBroguiere^?)
• OPM, France: FrancoisViallefond, MichelCaillat
• MPIfR^?, Germany: (DirkMuders), HeikoHafok
• ESO, Germany: JonasLarsen, DirkPetry
• NRAO, USA: Representatives: JosephMcMullin, KumarGolap, BrianGlendenning, DebraShepherd, LindseyDavis, TakTsutsumi

Development

Data Capture

• Status:
  • ICD/OFFLINE tag: Holography-2006-06-B
  • OFFLINE tag: Holography-2006-06-B
• Benchmark
  • http://almasw.hq.eso.org/almasw/bin/view/OFFLINE/DataFlowResults
• Documentation
  • Data Capture Document - out of date; under construction
  • Offline doxygen documentation
  • Data Capture Build and Test
• Key Dates:
  • 2004-02-13 Design Accepted
  • 2004-03-15 Initial Documentation
  • 2004-07-02 Use CORBA structs to pass information to TelCal^?
  • 2004-07-02 Initial Prototype (MiniDC^?)
  • 2004-08-17 Alter interface to TelCal^? to handle XML Strings
  • 2004-08-17 Agree that TelCal^? will use CORBA Structs post-R2
  • 2004-09-17 Agree that TelCal^? will pass through IDs to DC
  • 2004-10-01 Prototype DC used at R2
  • 2005-01-21 Migration to HLA UML Framework for ASDM
  • 2005-04-01 R2.1
  • 2005-09-15 Control introduction of ATDM; translators to ASDM in DC (Control).
  • 2006-02-15 Handling for Optical Pointing Use Case
• Discussion
  • Optical Pointing
  • TelCal Requirements
  • TelCal Results Flow
  • Data Capture Pre-Integration

Filler

• Status: CVS Head (Initial: 2005-11)
• Documentation
  • Build the Filler
• Benchmarking
• ASDM Simulated Data Set Repository
• Key Dates
  • 2005 Nov - Initial filler checked in
    • G2MSFiller checked into AIPS++ CVS repository
    • dasdm2ms checked into ALMA CVS repository (Offline)
    • ASDM changes in HLA

ASDM

• Status: Tag Holography-2006-06-B (ICD/HLA)
• ASDM Simulated Data Set Repository
• ASDM Browser (Java)
• Documentation
  • Current
    • Overview (Programmer's)
    • ASDM Enumerations
    • ASDM Master Reference spreadheet (pdf)(xls)
    • ASDM Tables
    • ASDM Java documentation
    • ASDM C++ documentation
    • Visual representation here in html.
    • CalDataModel.pdf
    • ASDM Flags

• • • Correlator Binary Data Format Document
    • Spreadsheet to compute correlator data sizes
    • ASDM Binary Flags

• • Historical
    • ASDMMigration
    • Code Generation Discussion
    • V2.0 ALMA Export Data Format
    • V1.0 ALMA Export Data Format
    • Alma Export Data Format discussion
    • VOTable Implementation of the Alma Export Data Format
    • MeasurementSet V 2.0

• • Development
    • ASDMV3Draft

• Offline documentation
• Key Dates:
  • 2003-10-01 Discussion documents promulgated. Done.
  • 2003-10-31 SSR, Science IPT personnel assigned to review. Done.
  • 2004-03-15 Final Draft Document. Done: 2004-04-09
  • 2004-04-12 Document submitted for ALMA Review. Done: 2004-04-19
  • 2004-06-01 Final Accepted Version
  • 2004-07-12 AEDF->ASDM; HLA representation of ASDM.
  • 2004-09-17 Alter ASDM to handle time,interval ambiguity (time range of observation versus validity); time will be a type with supported classes to convert from ACS time to MJD, etc.
  • 2005-01-21 HLA UML ASDM review/migration (Socorro - Francois, Michel, Allen, Joe).
  • 2005-06-15 First subsystem use of UML ASDM framework (June Integration)
• Discussion
  • Archive Queries - for filler et al.
  • CalDB Model
    • Calibration Data Base
    • Offline use: CalibrationDataBase

AIPS++/CASA

• Status:
  • Release SS10 available: ftp://ftp.cv.nrao.edu/casa/obtaining.html
  • SS11 in development
• Project Office Page
• CurrentActivity
• ALMA Releases
  • R2
  • R2dot1
  • R3
  • R3dot1^?
• ALMA TSTs
  • ALMA TST1 - Single Field Interferometry
  • ALMA TST1.1 - +Mosaics
  • ALMA TST2.0 - +SD/Synthesis Imaging
  • ALMA2006.01 -- Single Baseline Reduction and Analysis for ATF Operations
    • Pre-testing Checklist
    • Testing Checklist
• SSG Releases
  • SS1 - Aug 2003
  • SS2 - Oct 2003
  • SS3 - Dec 2003
  • SS4 - Jan 2004
  • SS5 - Mar 2004
  • SS6 - May 2004
  • SS7 - Aug 2004
  • SS8 - Sep 2004
  • SS9 - Nov 2004
  • SS10 - Jan 2005
  • SS11 - Mar 2005
  • SS12 - May 2005
  • SS13 - Jul 2005
  • SS14 - Sep 2005
  • SS15 - Nov 2005
  • SS16 - Underway

• Performance
  • • Status: Ongoing benchmarking of three datasets.
      • Benchmark Page
• Regression
  • • RegressionTests
• Discussion
  • TelCal-Offline Interface IDL
  • ATM Interface Discussion
    • C++ Interface to ATM Library (0.2)^?
• Key Dates
  • • 2005-03-15 Begin SS12
    • 2005-05-15 End SS12

• Completed Targets

• Action Tracker

• Third Party Packages

Single Dish Development

• SD Eval
• Single Dish functionality census: asap-mod2.1.xls
• ASAP Home Page: http://www.atnf.csiro.au/computing/software/asap/
  • ASAP requirements document
  • ASAP v2 Data Container Design
• ASAPDataFormatV2
• ALMA Heuristics Single Dish
• SD Status

Framework

• Framework - ACS Task/Parameter Framework support Meetings/Discussions
• Framework Design/Implementation
• System Documentation
• Framework Architecture
• Example Session
• Framework Status

Developer Area

• CVS use
• Development topic list
• SystemTasks
• ACS/AIPS++ integration^?
• ASDM Slicing
• msplot interface
• 2006-schedule

Meetings

• Developer Meeting June 2005 -- Done
• ASDM Meeting - August 2005^? -- Done
• Pre-R3 Data Flow Meeting -- Done

Discussion Areas

• SD Eval
• ASDM Evaluation
• XY Plotting discussion
• ALMA Leads Discussion
• DataReductionPackageOverview
• CvsMigration [closed/implemented - see: CVS use ]
• EmailChangeProposal [closed/implemented]
• DataSelection [review]
• CCL Device Commissioning

• Old - Trash^?

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• DataCapture.pdf: Data Capture Document (draft)

• AEDFV2.pdf: ALMA Export Data Format V2

• AEDFV2.pdf: ALMA Export Data Format V2 (submitted version)

• ASAP_requirements.pdf: ASAP requirements document

• ASAP_containerdesign.pdf: ASAP Data Container Design

• SD_comparison.xls: Single Dish Functionality Comparison (coarse!)